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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  also essential. In this post, I’d like to talk to you about one lifestyle ... climate change. Limiting just one individual's meat consumption could have a ... the U.S. comes from farms. One dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  -serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know ... flashback essay. You know, the one that envisions you receiving the Nobel ... function poorly or die if this occurs. The New Radicals are a one hit wonder

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  admission. From my perspective, checking the box, or boxes to indicate one’s race should be as automatic as providing one’s name. As Chris Peterson ... ability to check multiple boxes should make it easier to identify one's race

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September ... one" or "the ambitious one" in high school—sometimes that's all they

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of thinking spots (mine is right across from this one and is labeled "Happy Place" and sits next to a poster of Jimi Hendrix). H) Sasha '13, one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  , "In Scotland, there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black." So today I came home and ... experience? 1. There exists at least one library at MIT. 2. There exist at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on ... Science and Engineering, assigned it as one our journal club readings.) an

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  recommend getting a mattress pad i.e. the egg carton ones, or memory foam ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be ... one on sale at the Container Store (BEST STORE EVER) that folds up, so

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant that there was just one tiny (read: stupid) error somewhere, but I couldn ... ’t make it on the first Wednesday, but… -- ONE WEEK AGO -- A week later I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... and way cooler, is this IAP in rifle. Rifle is one of three firearms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  -wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment ... one class I dreaded taking, one class I registered for, then dropped ... couldn’t escape it, you see. It was one of the General Institute

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  numbered? One reason I'm writing this entry is to help bridge the gap ... it's one of MIT's most interesting - and yet also most understated ... ) hacker (n.) - (1) One who hacks. (2) One who pulls hacks. (3) One who goes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  coming up with a zillion ways to explain the same concept; one person might ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... …” Freshman: “Oh! Oh! Two over one.” Me: “Two over one? But that’s a fraction

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  in one nonstop 20-hour spurt than in 40 hours of punctuated work time ... months. One unwavering constant about software internships is that interns ... this reason. A few lucky ones have unusual enough names that they can

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... ... one... The first bite was not that bad. Maybe the nerve endings in my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one ... was really a week feels like one incredibly never-ending day. Falling ... exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... . Upon killing, one absorbs their victim's victim, and so on until one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  are marginally more public than one’s own room) are mapped above. The ... I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East Campus, the East Campus music room, or in Barker library (the one under the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of ... some secret form of Math that no one else knows about. Heck you can even ... (scientific ones nonetheless. You know, the ones that are hard to get

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  , hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every ... . Potential so tightly strung that one little mishap could release it unto the world into one big energetic THWAP. And so I make myself busy over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019