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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... know all those equations on the board by their exam time the next week ... aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  that MIT DOES NOT admit on a quota, and you WILL NOT be penalized by ... -Ray order, Mr. Park searched in vain for Radiology in a blinding flurry of ... revitalization of this system. It is no longer sufficient for us to stand on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... you helpful time-saving tips on how to prepare everything for the party ... by and gives you a sticky note. You write your name on it, and then you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  refers to those buildings by number. If you focus on the Buildings 1 ... wrote a Sporcle quiz so you can test yourself on the building numbers on ... ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic equilibria: even though something, on the microscopic level, may be in constant

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  , thankfully), on which he will occasionally disappear for weeks on end. If Larry ... lunch on the beach, and discussed strategy for the upcoming years, as well ... This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  enrolled at MIT. So for all of you who are looking to merge your talents in the arts with your passion for all things techie, look no further, you ... and Media Tod Machover has been getting quite a bit of exposure for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... makes skype calls much nicer, it’s good for narrating what’s going on in a ... purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my ... little more... Fenty For at least a week or two I had been sleeping on the ... ’s simply another product, which women (and men) have been using for centuries

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... 's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk ... flowers or fruit or other predecessors. When evolution rolls on for long

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  /Harvard/Boston community have regular weekly shows, some of which have been on the air for ... post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  by its dictionary definition and so for the sake of this post deserves ... It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  stations, and every time I went running meant an hour-long search for free ... to look like a chic tiny home. For further reading: Stephi Lee on ... victory, three a cause for celebration. So on a day with no driving, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  values in their search for the D9 organization they wanted to join. Nikayah ... rely on her [annotation note=" shorthand for sorority sisters ... internship placed her on the West Coast for the first time in her life. Her

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks from toddling around on the carpet and thinking "I suppose I'll try ... possible way for me to get done before 4 AM. Here's exactly why it took me so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... . I think that on some level I feel like my worth is determined by my ... ’s mostly been caused by my having too much work on weekends, which is a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  might think you simply weren’t good enough for MIT and that now you won ... Lydia K. '14 MEng '16 Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) by ... Penny for Your Thoughts by Erick P. '17 Although of course you end up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  before Pi Day, I was denied by that PhD program. I had reached for the ... be challenged by, and how much; like whether you are ready for a period ... Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016