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• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends ... which room, which bed, which pillow, and so on... until you've decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... quite good, and I have earned a complete scholarship for attending the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and ... , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  favorite memories, events, and people, and it's an integral part of my MIT ... performing a birthday dirge, as opposed to a birthday song, where we stomp and ... excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you ... , and three minutes later, I got my flu shot. And I was awed. The flu

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... holiday is cluttered with things I said I'd do during the semester and didn ... time to decompress and enjoy spending time with my family. I don't know

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back. xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator ... his lectures, celebrated his anniversaries, and replicated this comic in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  : 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack ... : Be Safe – Your safety, the safety of others, and the safety of anyone ... all exercise some common sense. And so, walking back to my new dorm

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... , lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full ... entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working ... think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic? It requires some work, but is generally relaxing and fun. Additionally

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the ... whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  projects and a writing portfolio and all that. Now I have no finals while almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and ... of the past ten years (go back and forth with the bracket keys

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized by going here and voting on the right hand side. This site is a little ... where a lot of people sit in a very small skinny rowboat and row super

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and cheap and easy to use and produce strong, perfect bricks. My group is

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long ... spring semester learning more Python and more LaTeX showing off my ... Medlinks retreat thoughts about Fraternity Rush all the photos and events

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  Allen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also ... blogger alum Mitra '07 took 21W.755: Writing and Reading Short Stories with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... currently running kernel source and the configuration settings, combined with ... 's what Ted says in ZDNet's article: Top kernel developer and Linux

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the ... based If you are an international student and 21 has not yet opened in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008