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  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  North, creator of Dinosaur Comics (a lot of other comic artists. A LOT ... beginning to the two best days of my life. Even registration at something ... . At the end of it Tron Guy dazzled us with a light show. Ooh! Shiny

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... wind part my hair a little. At least my chair is made of comfortable ... at which people are moving along and to hear their blissful lack of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  healthy! My program has at least three hours of lecture every day and the ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  wanting one. I took a job 1.5 hours north of where I lived not long before ... , my buyers withdrew their offer.  All of a sudden I had a house to sell ... driving a Tesla Model S 85.  I drooled at it.  I stole glances at it.  I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  produce this list of all US schools that provide at least $1 million in ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to ... interested in engineering, Berea offers a 3-2 dual-degree engineering program

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at ... 're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the ... of late weekend drama. Of course, at 9:20 PM or so, the MIT freshman

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  Mediterranean. We also got to play in a jungle gym at the top of the hill, but I ... than I am at MIT, and Bob Barker could die and I wouldn't even know about ... fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  . I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... of bed at 4am, kicked my roommate's snoring friend, and stood on the ... taken at the top of the waterfall: The telescope was set up at Glacier

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the ... ’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the ... was a witty combination of orientation information and MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  of Saturn's north pole, from a NASA information booth at the American ... of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards ... ."]toaster.[/annotation] At the risk of seeming unhinged, I will admit that this one also comes

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  assume they are laughing at me, so I asked them what the heck Second Degree ... unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  matter, I don't even think the biology department at MIT offers a masters ... description of life as a doctor -- it just got a little graphic at times, and ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... , because it is specifically targeted at students within the Department of ... rounds up some of the amenities Architecture students get at MIT. Because

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  interview at School C. This obviously creates a cohesive little community of ... undergrads at these interview weekends -- there were 8 or 9 of us out of 75 ... knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  in the country offers a degree that combines computer science and urban ... For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  race to 2021. For those of you more technical folk, Nimby was car #4 at ... race, which started in Independence, Missouri, at the start of the Santa ... all the teams had to also consider how to keep the battery of the car at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... class again at MIT. MIT usually does not offer credit for classes taken

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal ... playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if ... to Wikipedia, and two of them offer interesting solutions to Aviv

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010