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  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... , which prevented it from flying satisfyingly, we quickly evolved the game

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  letting it bounce out. Damn game. Everybody loves dunk tanks ... . Sam offered to dispose of him for me. Hmm, urinal or toilet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Review and Games Magazine. This year's Mystery Hunt begins this coming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright ... for this weird system is that magnitudes were initially assigned by eye

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  interning for the next four weeks during Independent Activities Period (IAP ... finally figured out how to open the trunk to look for the ice scraper Zipcar ... unhealthy. We decided to get the bare necessities for lunch sandwiches

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  as "the oldest and best known award for international study," includes ... has for three years worked in a lab analyzing the effects of recombinant ... active volunteer emergency medical technician, and a tutor for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  ): “Merica”, power struggles, and the historical game of RISK. For a history ... both are insanely accomplished, and the stuff they have done for the ... whole class was just waiting at one point for someone to say they were

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  call my virtual critters in the OTHER Nintendo-affiliated Niantic game ... ) it's time for anyone who's interested in blogging to share your writing ... Interphase EDGE/x, or live on Conner 2, or host an adMIT for Sin LíMITe, or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  ,                                                                                                                                                 Anastassia TED Talks TED talks, for those unfamilar, are "riveting talks by ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10 ... discounted seat for only ~$20 in the outdoors section. All photos courtesy of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  mailing lists that only see use for a semester, others that get used for a year or more, and still others that are used for four or more years. Many ... guess what a group's mailing list name might be). Take, for example, the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the ... . What I do have, however, is an insatiable desire for free goodies and t ... starts with me stumbling out of bed Friday morning (we had a Game of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  noticed an article about a commercial that Chuck Norris filmed for ... that I may have missed. - When taking the SAT, write "Chuck Norris" for ... : Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya ... for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  're going to try to premiere it at this week's men's ice hockey game and, if ... for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like a poem. I was especially proud of us for the rhyme "three eight four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  ’re getting trained in and feedback on. At least for me, I have trouble ... optimize the design of the bridge. Now, I’m a news editor for The Tech (MIT ... to replace it, which costs “money” out of our budget, which we may or

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... to our MIT ID cards, and you can put as much or as little money as you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  excellent date idea, for those of you who need suggestions), romantic movie ... for their sweetheart, or friend, or professor. For example, I remember ... candy factories (including those for Tootsie Roll, Necco Wafers, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  in what they can use the money for such as replenishing funds or making ... this much intensity. For the first time, I feel like my life is sort of ... the 70s and has been in the finance industry for numerous of years. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... everything happens for a reason. And so I'm trying to convince myself I am out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009