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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  -pitch run-down of the intro blog is “Cambridge has no fields or horses or ... Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... problems figuring out which motor to use for their robot. They tell you that ... , so they didn't know which motor to use. The robot builders decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  good people of Boston Spinjam are meeting on Mondays on Killian Court ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick ... the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  , but suggested that they might dare to have a sense of humor - or ... -vacation (which is where I've been hiding). So I've got CD's now; stop by 3-107 if ... (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  major. “Is getting through this courseroad all going to be worth it? Or am ... you can't predict how a robot is going to look like by the end of the ... everything." Failure is not the antithesis of progress, or even success. But

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  , [annotation note="Which may have the qualifications to be a pandemic of its own ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I ... , I get to haul a soggy pile of clothes from the washer to a dryer on

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  them all weekend in favor of rush burgers. I sat next to my parents on ... included the ban on freshmen, and the removal of two of our GRTs to make way ... is impossible without trust on both sides. It’s hard to come up with

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or ... One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  you write on it and try to erase, it leaves smears or shadows of what you wrote, or is hopeless beyond repair. This technique was used to ... This blog post is an ode to whiteboards, which I love very, very

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  feet of snow just to reach the sidewalk.) The caveat is that any day that ... instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... issue. A more realistic threat is that of having nothing to do. This

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  a good idea to build a city on hundreds of low-lying interconnected ... strangest moments of our trip to Italy. As a tourist, Venice is probably ... had the choice of going the Uffizi to see the Birth of Venus or to a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  -not only are his lectures good, which is enough to win most people over, but ... In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... sort of wandered around the floor for a while trying to work some of it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  . On top of the movies every week, MIT gives RBA groups a lot of money to ... particularly easy to transfer to another dorm (though this depends on which dorm ... , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6 ... to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... of cramming a 7 double major into one or two more semesters isn’t lost

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption ... approval. This is why it's important to search for potential UROPs ahead of ... can filter through the options to search for the kind of program that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  stitches on the inside, which are kind of hard to see because they're tan in ... on Thursday I made my way from 2.007 lecture to the second floor of the ... next thing I remember is lying on the floor with one of the red cross

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  improving the site's usability. On top of creating a user experience that is intuitive and friendly to a younger age group, a lot of consideration is also ... wording of labels and instructions are lost. An emphasis is put on the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012