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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... and forests, the mountains began to part for towns ending in ville and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  they may be of use to you in some way shape or form. --- And one ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... the years and years to come? In an earlier entry, I talked about the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  vocabulary to tell grandpa in detail what I was learning in school or tell ... entire 3 or 4 seat row to themselves. My sister, parents, and I all took ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... masterpiece of breathlessly-paced storytelling, trying to scan in every color-saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart ... , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed ... cook, just to be clear"]mushroom[/annotation] store in [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  give both balls to my friend, one in each hand, leave the room, and give them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re ... their name or drivers license or other personal information i want to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  Portraits by sending out countless emails; or rushing to the office late at ... finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to ... to relax, or at the very least, cross my fingers and hope nothing

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... free, or confirm that someone is likely to be around at a certain time ... 's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him ... ones I managed to bootleg off the PowerPoint display from my seat in the ... left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... that they would suggest for the Admin to revert the current situation or to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... standards until you've learned to be satisfied with mediocrity. And so, in ... 't even my lowest grade of all time in that point--that honor fell to an AP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  or in syrup? 2. What internal pressures are observed upon penguin ... Comm meeting in late September to allocate the preciously limited funding. This ... faster in water or in syrup? Professor Edward Cussler won the Ig Nobel in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  introduce people to each other, or reach out to people interested in certain ... ", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the ... , fans who ventured to Manchester in the storm for the Monarch's game on ... my sister?" So thus far this holiday, I've been to two games in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  obvious or made careless mistakes in lab, because I was supposed to be the ... apply to in the fall, mostly because I had no frame of reference for which ... events led to me, a high-schooler, getting the opportunity to work in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... shall be eaten." or "Wear Shoes or DIE" The cast: The EC rush chairs, in ... they best fit in. This freedom to choose where you live was actually one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... school in that area. It was a dream I had to go there. When I was just ... percent of the research fee Тƒо in advance. To my amazement 12 companies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  know how to write HTML, more or less, but I didn't feel like it.) FYI ... 't relate to the content of the department or the time period it was ... -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006