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  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  Bad Idea associated with the Green Building was running up the stairs as ... really only showed up to take pictures, but I made the mistake of going on ... run by herself, so I thought, "well, what the heck." I ventured up. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... 're capable of something worthy of an Ig Nobel? The reason I bring this up is ... hand by Mason '10 and was all set. I was teamed up with an associate time

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  practicals where we have to 1) participate and 2) write up a lab report. Each lab usually takes around 4 hours and a couple of hours to write up ... so you end up staying up really late to struggle through the problems

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a ... can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  classes and in research groups you may end up working with. We are a very ... concept, they are struggling to keep up with the workload, they didn't do as ... are chewing up time and mental energy. Too often, students assume that

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  -mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on ... the first and last time ever, and it ended up being something like the ... , broken up by a 20-minute party/lab goggle selection session. One thing I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  for Mystery Hunt. Now let me tell you why. I woke up Friday morning ... 17 trips to the coffee machine. After work finally ended, I met up ... later, I met up with Diana and Evelyn to head over to the Prudential

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  , so I end up burning parts so I can cook the meat all the way through ... 'm (slightly) OCD, I lined them up in the order I put them into the pan. Voila ... wanted to attend MIT. I would like to take up medicine,perfabely in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on ... speaks Taishanese (a variant of Cantonese) and I picked up impressively little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  organize my thoughts into some grand realization or wrap up a cool project ... 're released? yeahhh"]Yesterday,[/annotation] I woke up around noon in my dorm ... lately.  I met up with Winnie to walk to Haymarket, an outdoor produce

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  course road “filled” up (quotation marks because neither of us have future ... registration day. Step 1: Look up "mass art course listing" on google, and trust ... : Pick up the signed form from the transfer credit examiner. Step 7: Meet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  after the sun completely set and before the moon came up, but we never saw ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in the woods, and she opened it up. Everyone rushed up the tall ladder in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the ... Mars (title slides below). Carl periodically jumped up to chime in, which ... continue in the morning. That would break up the driving, and reduce the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  'll decide where to go. (flickr: Dan4th) You'll look up and down streets. Look ... PLACES YOU'LL GO! You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights ... 'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true and Hang-ups can happen to you. You

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... to school 3,000 miles away means I'm racking up more frequent flyer ... up to write this blog entry. Thanks, baby. And so my Thanksgiving break

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go ... alone in MIT again." We talk for a while about how we ended up living in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown ... with them. Who knows where we'll end up in the next few years. This week ... getting back in shape. I signed up for the NYU Intercollegiate Champs first

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of ... was at 10am on Saturday. I showed up at 9:40 (we're supposed to arrive ... ) and then it was already five minutes into my class so I had to give up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  and gathers as many points as it can before time is up. Coding ... have to tweak the code, tweak the bot, line the bot back up, and try ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... , Alexandria, and she said she could pick it up for me, and I thanked her

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020