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  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  arrival) Backpack At least 2 two-liter water bottles full of water One ... , bordering the north side of the battle field. The marched towards us ... One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  honest account, even if it’s overwhelming at times. Please take care of ... , on-campus resources at the end of the article, as well as some notes if ... questions at the early half of my recovery, I know it would have been

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four ... watch yourself break." But I enjoy — of course I enjoy, at this place ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... number. At some point in high school, I had 100 digits of tau memorized

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... Jeff Silva of Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), who makes each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... completely worth it: Did you hear the voices at the end of the video ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  ! I’m certainly going to do them again! I even did at least one of them ... becomes new again. A Philosophy of Software Design (56k words). I'm at the ... . And, uh, I'm not sure I would cite any of the 24.903 readings here. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  that he offered to share:       Hope to see you both -- and the rest of ... deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  at the water, and there was a lot of foam floating around. One of our ... .’” “We went to a restaurant that sold noodles from the north west of China ... times.” "One of our students said that his dream is to study history at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... spring here! Yet, despite all those years of dreaming and planning, none of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  All around North America, it's been a pretty snowless winter. Some ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  places an upper limit on the diameter of a telescope at around 10 meters ... 's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  outside. They were content. At dinnertime the sounds of human life again ... the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of ... ending for you. A while ago, at the start of summer, I was making my bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation. Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  gear. If you truly have no idea what I mean, we here at the ONLY institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  right on the north side of lobby 7). When I walked in, I was greeted with this lovely man all the way at the back, which of course made me very ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017