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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... it? "The integral of z squared dz From one to the cube root of three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  with through to aida and hold, which i didn’t really knew how to do, but ... throw a move you don’t know how to dance to, and you just have to roll ... ’ll maintain composure. i don’t know how to do this next bit, but i’ll keep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  of airline training'' "]how long he had to train to be a pilot ... Today I flew back to campus! I returned earlier that most students because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100 ... letters. They also didn’t look or feel like other silk fabrics I was used to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of ... ’ve climbed each day. I’m calling this dataset “Baby Steps” because of how

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty-six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... hard, and listen to your body. That's how you pull away from the pack

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  That's truly a title that says "What should I use for a title?" How are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  . Poker Club Intro to Poker class (8-9) I know how to play poker but I ... . How do these things all contribute to the gaming experience as a whole? Taylor then talks about how adding a specific mod to her World of Warcraft

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool ... are people's spirits. So: my banana plant is almost too large to fit ... colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and entertaining, but right now we would like to emphasis something you should take ... ?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  was oddly invigorating and I don't really know how else to describe it ... : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  strategic and some less so, about how to solve this problem. Déspues, I, my co ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately ... by the direct funding deadline (we've all been there). When my soon-to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  people to use our app, no matter how well it was designed. So we decided to ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... still managed to recall how to navigate to the home of a friend whom I ... very surprised to see how happy and excited many of the people

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  hands on work or theoretical studies? You'll want to figure out how MIT ... 's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... impossible to satisfy everyone, you know? For example, if you really wanted to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee. This got me thinking, "I wonder how many ... to business. Find below the best 23 Chuck Norris MIT appropriate jokes. I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008