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  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  of Clay at a certain internet message board at which Sam's Mom may or ... to prepare kind of an absurdist take on the song. The song beigns with ... is dedicated to the one song (out of over 100) in this entire concert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... joking - this is my father we're talking about. (Hi, Dad.) I drove back to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... [/caption] Suddenly, the end date for my stay was years away instead of days or weeks

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal ... Corporation. Currently, she is a lab assistant, or L.A., for a new class called

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  ".   a parody of Animal Planet     This week on MIT ... on the first weekend of October, MIT students and non-MIT students ... projects over the span of 24 hours. Throughout the week leading up to Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  of annotations, it is a monster to read... let alone understand. But ... hearing your thoughts, whether supportive or critical, is always ... both difficult but possible to understand. I really enjoyed both of them

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  (more on this later). The Gears On top of this base is a set of gears ... is slightly extended to interface with the servo on the wall. The ... . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which shows just how quickly MIT is zipping on by.   During last year's Career Fair, I ... of coding experience, or maybe it was the bags full of swag that gave

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... mural on my whiteboard. I have a confession to make: I’ve never

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  together is during “Greek Week,’ which was held this year from April 27 to ... or not, several of these cakes were made by guys! Way to go, guys ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is ... dilated by an optometrist which is why they're wearing sunglasses

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  and embryonated chickens. My research is part of a project to use these ... research opportunities; one of them is bound to be right for you. Hopefully ... MIT is serious about research. The Institute is the birth place to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... all of you have been able to set up your interview, etc. If you can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many of our high school friends when we go home. :( But, this is because ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  explore the field is to get a UROP in one of the many labs that do nanotech ... opportunities to learn about nanotech. Given the vague definition of the term (think of how many things are on the nanoscale) and its interdisciplinary

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah, whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... the rain is sufficient to water [annotation note="I have all sorts of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... chronological reason, let's go back (or forward) to the wee hours of Monday ... (Read on to find why, after this commercial break). The third floor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009