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  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... from home and kept getting the ominous Blue Screen of Death. For two days ... that there was nothing wrong with my hard drive or my memory. Later, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  at around 4 PM after the Robot Parade, until I slept at 1 or 2 AM that ... Martin Luther King Jr. day, with dozens of teams and thousands of ... everyone I mention, because I don’t really know everyone’s last initials or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... .[/caption] [Wednesday 7-8 am] Physical Training (PT): What we do varies from week to week and day to day. However it mostly centers around training to pass the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  figured that if I was trying to keep up with my "entry every other day" pace ... 't find much, decides to make things juicy by adding "College ... labeled as, A GUESS. When Matt or Ben post when the decision date is we will

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , even in the middle of the day. There wasn’t any classes, or square dancing, or ESP worksessions—all events where I saw people, where I talked ... because it’s too far, or because there’s only a break of two weeks before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  more typical 5.5 to the exceptional 7.5 of sophomore fall. So, once again ... ; surely, an added dollop of efficiency and just a little more grit could ... two weeks until suddenly it was either extremely urgent or already too

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I ... numerical response (or even a string of numbers.) For example, --Laura might ... in 5 and 7, with minors in 9 and 14”. Translation: “I’m crazy.” Well

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to talk about my favorite characters without getting embarrassed or ... year, listed in (approximately) chronological order. 1. Mo Dao Zu Shi ... been into any Chinese entertainment or media, and growing up in white

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... current resident or someone from years ago. But when I moved into my room ... no door painting for me that year. Or the next. This blog post is the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  It's been one hundred twenty-five days since my dad pulled up outside ... them behind. That's the part I keep thinking about. That day was – among ... where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and Sarah Kay Week 2: TableTop, Net ... Octopus, Apocalypse or Iron Man, we were always left in awe. In this piece ... extensions for the purpose of added worker efficiency. Could you imagine how

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... , performed by Justin Timberlake) [Verse 1] I'm bringing benzene back These

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  us had any idea what the next few days, weeks, or months would look ... , March 9: Just Another Day Tuesday, March 10: The Announcement ... through the cracks of my memory or have been distorted by the clumsiness of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  mineral as determined by its capacity to scratch another or be itself scratched” [1]. In simpler terms, harder materials are more difficult to ... ranging from 1 (talc) to 10 (diamond) where material X ranks above material

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

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... (Indigenous People's Day) to go camping - it's late enough in the season that ... fishing food out of the fire...) [carousel image1="82505" image2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  day, shared privately with a few close friends. The entries are fairly mundane; I give a summary of how the day went, jot down any thoughts or ... interesting or thematically relevant to the day. An almost chronological

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  was it east or west? "East Village" sounds right, but I remember going ... decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  day shanties, like Wellerman or Hoist the Colors are not work songs, but ... serving pie on pi day. Whether it be pizza pie or real pie, everyone was ... I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... had added a display that showed how the glass flowers were constructed ... life to the exhibit. [carousel image1="71964" image2="71963" image3

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022