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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ... but remember, the entropy of the universe increases in all natural ... your floor's chances of winning by entering in all five! Happy Cooking ... that they'd had enough of seeing so many other floors' entries in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... . Quadrant one is like the “Omg my quality of life is so freaking good” section

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was one of those experiences where you come away with distinct feelings, although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever-growing and never-shrinking universe that is Organic Chemistry. Time and time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  , universities (including MIT and Harvard) and teaching hospitals. 1/5 of Nobel ... . And I’m afraid that on Wednesday, I will find out that all of these ... . * * * Our training begins on Monday March 24. Around ten of us have arrived in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  NYC admitted students meeting was nothing short of amazing. A lot of it ... Cline made the alumni of Stuyvesant currently attending MIT (Stuyvesant being the majority of the room) speak, as well as Alums from other high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... 'll go down that rabbit hole another time. Anyways, I was getting tired of ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It includes a little bit of everything, and because it's such a flexible major

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust" -- graduates of years past that still hang around the hall -- which reveal all sorts of things of interest when you poke them. But along with all the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... slow or quicken the progression of time. So here we are, four years from

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop that’s named desktop, that just contains folder versions of my old ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  happiness. I’ve collected 400 hours of bus angst over the past three years, of ... wrote an unhappy list of all the people I was unhappy at, which Cory R ... edged into the middle of the line to the bathroom and after ten minutes of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my ... personal hero of mine) so I figured it was some sort of creepy cultish leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... elite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  significant single decision as choosing a university. But I’m facing a lot of ... I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... because of my awesome addition skills. (Kindergarden, remember?) As I got ... , and spends most of his time framing houses. He used to come home from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe ... have a fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” “[referring to ... has happened every day of my 20-year-old life so far (not sure whether

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012