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  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  have a nice sugar induced coma for a hour after the game. Nutella Eating ... year. Some of the events this year are: The world's slowest game of Simon Says, running up the Green Building stairs for 4 hours, a Python Bee, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... for the conference. It was just that I had to wake up at 6 AM ... 'm currently sitting in the lobby writing this post while I wait for the opening

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  summer before coming to MIT. The only experience I had was playing with ... motors for our rockets. The team mixes custom ammonium perchlorate ... [/caption] Composites (brrrrrrr)  is responsible for the design, manufacturing, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has ... has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  Blogs wide game of Funny Farm. It is pretty much impossible to solve ... actually be able to do it. The game is pretty self-explanatory: you start ... 's the game with a couple of solutions in it: Following? Okay, the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Figure 1 – Mohs hardness scale for some common materials [2 ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human error, I took three measurements for each sample using the indenter and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  to do is find the money to pay for one: Sigh...it's so worth it ... filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this semester: RING PREMIERE!!! Many of you may know this already, but for those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  an MIT student? me: yes. guy: ok thanks. well, you just cost me money.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... hyper-productivity where I worked continuously for hours until my cases

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  addition to 7 local governments, one for each of the 7 parishes. I got to ... parliament is responsible for making the laws of the country. The parliament ... Barcelona) that is regularly agitating for independence. Andorra borders

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  guess I had forgotten that this is what life is normally like. Take, for ... morning for [annotation note="Probability and Random Variables"]18.600,[/annotation] and one due at 5 pm for [annotation note="Relativity"]8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  badly to karaoke songs (kidding, delete one very) or playing video games ... that’s been on everyone’s mind for the past week. The pre-wedding dinner ... in my head. I saw snow for the first time earlier this month. I woke

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  amount of Overleaf formatting can obviate the need for deleting content you ... finals to study for, i spent my time doing absolutely jack all with my ... official last day of classes for everyone, i went to see the movie Jujutsu

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Exam” on Friday morning, my challenger played the familiar “Long, Hideous ... style of a narrated Pokemon card game tournament, the short of it is that ... the graders and probably (hopefully) ended up getting LOL points for my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you ... )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don't have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to give this here blog a new outfit for the new year. What do you

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us ... November, was the release of the movie associated with the Ender's Game ... , showcasing the different armies of Ender's Game - Griffin, Dragon, and Tiger

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

   do each semester—for example, in Fall 2020, I did around 58 hours of "actual ... have enjoyed it thoroughly, so I'll reserve judgement for later. So far ... theory for people who know some amount of basic music theory." We're slowly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  be great. Come and be liberated!   SPRING 2020 My Spring 2020 ... : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021