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  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8 ... problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the ... amusing excerpts with you. Enjoy! (The point of the problem was to show

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I ... kind of creepy. The bar corresponding to what's currently going on with ... books checked out of the libraries- plus another 2 from the Boston Public

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  about across the shores of Valhalla. Then, after writing a slew of blogs ... desktop called “Graveyard of the Forsaken”, the hero realized that the ... is the time. Signed, Petey of the Blogs.” With the passage of time

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose ... photographing Boston Ride the full length of the Red Line Attend all the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent ... idea," he whispered back. In 1982, Fink became a founding member of the ... program informed me of the existence of the James R. Killian, Jr. Faculty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most people refer to it – “The-one-with-the-guns-instead-of-swords” or “The-one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  of the dorm occasionally. So without further ado, here are some other ... decide who truly is the greatest lover of pancakes. Last Wednesday, a group of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to ... -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  ) and the end-of-season fencing banquet. Here are some thoughts if you’re into that kind of thing. The Photography of Ring Delivery: Ridiculous ... of dread (or perhaps elation) because they are nearing the end of their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  It’s been four days since the beginning of sophomore year. That means ... coming into fruition has been an enlightening journey. The Journey of 8,726,400 SOS When I look back at the blogger I was at the beginning of freshman

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat, the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a fairly recent tradition; the first redesign of it came about in 2008. But

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  The class of 2011 all got this e-mail this morning: Class of 2011 ... this well-deserved summer break thoroughly. Towards the end of the school year, the class council announced its decision of a ring committee

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  . The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the ... cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of ... favorite place in all of Columbus, the Columbus Zoo. I hadn't been there in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC ... ), technologists (Steve Wozniak, Jimmy Wales) -- the kinds of cool people you ... others. The talk by Jim Ross fits into the category of speakers I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... large chunk of Cambridge, and part of the Charles River, with the Museum of Science off in the distance. When I first got this blog, and was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2010! By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube".

  

  By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube". Let me hear from you! Are you excited? Are we your number one choice? Do you have reservations? Are you still in shock? Drop the Nance

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005