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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  .S. in light of the dwindling time we have left here on Earth, I propose ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In ... , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location ... walked to Kendall Square Cinema to see Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  ), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... test can sometimes be a very good thing at the end of term. Second, I ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  can take in one semester without breaking your brain. You're welcome, of ... year -- maybe one of the UA-connected bloggers could chime in? I guess ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... finished the pieces in this woodshop. It's really the most beautiful loft I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a ... on only using MIT students! Bummer. In the closing few weeks of the ... few days later, I found myself in an office with Hardi Meybaum, co

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  defense in the vicinity of the basket, the offense has an advantage and can ... one of the things i find most interesting about defense in games is its ... defensive one in my mind. (of course, since i’m also the one coming up with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I ... appeal of biting into apples, I thought to myself, after indulging in my ... useless in the kitchen, I’m something of an artist, myself. Jesus CHRIST

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  worth of photos to put in my blog and writing my entries, I thought it ... By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let ... final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  excite me, and I can see the direct utility in the material I'm learning ... .  But sooner or later, everyone hits a wall. One of the hardest things I ... rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  date that you can take is in January. Just because I care, here is the ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New ... taxes, or save part of your paycheck for the government overlords. In New ... . . . while, yes, I can still get it back (New Zealand allows you to file tax

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... exoplanet transits in front of a star credit: NASA Ames[/caption] Sometimes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... few hours of free time on the weekdays. I just asked everyone in the ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  -D lottery. The upshot of this is that you can make more informed choices in ... (both of which were submitted to MITMedical). Then I had to fill out the ... ! Personally, I mailed all medical forms and the first 9 pages of the practice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... I need is some primary accounts of the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943. So I ... , without living in Massachusetts, I have free access to the libraries of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  is, in fact, the only frequency I can demonstrate." 7.23, Immunology ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things ... .02, Multivariable Calculus, spring 2003. Professor Michael Sipser: "I have found in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... in the tradition of my last several blog entries, consider this entry ... during IAP. Not Mindstorms, but just tons and tons of LEGOs, sensors, and a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the ... will be one of those movies I watch many many times. I'm actually

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008