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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 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 ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the ... my laptop! And most of it won’t be affected by my grade! I smirked at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I ... every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... Internship For those of you that haven't read previous blogposts, I'm currently

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... a live band, an audience of 3300, and an overall class budget of a half million dollars. Under the tutelage of Professor David Wallace

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... bit of momentum fueling the blogging part of my brain. Here's a transcript of the video for those who might want it (I may have changed a word

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that ... a Game. There's plenty of other meaningful prose by other brilliant ... 't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of ... years of urgent deadlines (Test! Lab of Doom! 4 PSETS! 2 Tests!), I seem

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... of bloggers in one room?! Crazypants.) Over the course of three weeks, a group of seven students (from MIT undergrads to grad students to

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about ... that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs ... likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011