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  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I ... : "Today, 3/3/09, is square root day, which only occurs nine times each ... with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  chatting, Akash got a call on his mobile phone from another MIT '09, Anthony. Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our ... going on at MIT today/tonight... check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at ... -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought ... while simultaneously strengthening it. I want to explore the feeling of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  hall exchange is where two people, who live on different halls and almost always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to explore what living in that hall is like. there are semi-official programs

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  ("got lots of dormspam today", "are you on dormspam?") and a verb ("we ... quietly updated their filters and moved on with their lives. but some, of ... chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  , gravity took over, I hit the ground on my back and the wind was knocked ... 's when I need to charge up. 2) Someone spilled water on my laptop. Yikes ... my computer back on for the first time in weeks yesterday, and luckily

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  the living room, and help my lolo paint the benches with the big roller ... , showing me random videos of cool gadgets or updating me on the latest news ... . Your algebra really helped me out on this one. With mom, I felt at ease

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  Today after the admissions info session in Kresge (where it also took ... MIT News Office that addressed this point, but really butchered my ... : ------------------------------ Henderson explores many shapes of Shakespeare Book examines 'Shake

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari unicode block. the most common hindi word in the mediacloud india collection ... country sees the same two or three news shows, everyone's vision of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  spaceships/robots. Building blocks never get old. Once a month on Tuesdays, 17 ... movie or cartoon. We’ll gather in hall clots for lively chats. Then ... Palestine”. Support a friend on stage. Gather for important living group or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  some direction in chats with him. "Not that Jack would expound on ... , talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the ... . Memorial Scholarship Fund (sometimes known as the "Big Jimmy Fund"). Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  from the student center’s grocery store (LaVerde’s) also helped to keep ... ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact ... moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  just carry on what i’m doing right now. so i kept on exploring caves deep ... blocks, maybe a good fifteen hours spent on this, i was rowing in the ocean ... walked. and so the idea slowly came to me: what if i just kept on walking

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... could pick up her bike. On the way back we were chatting about various BBQ ... . After giving up on my packing I spent some time installing software (Solid

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  art and architecture. We were accompanied on our tour of La Défense by ... Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the ... (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary ... , is all around us. Its fruits are bore on every billboard, every cereal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  spending really depends on your living situation. For example, by living in a ... graduate. A lot of students pursue 5th year masters, some go on to industry ... on what I've read, it seems like everyone maintains a balance in what

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  to go to grad school what I focused on during undergrad how helpful ... weirder. personally, I’ve found it very helpful to focus on the positives at ... or synthesis, basically everything featured on this blog. which is also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... proximity to so many different countries make it so easy to hop on trains or busses and travel around all throughout Europe on a budget. I had an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  late night I really mean early morning. I did have help on one occasioin ... facilities available to you are determined on where you want to live. I live ... varies based on the people you live with. My suite shares everything but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005