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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  of the important people on his way out. This was going to be the chance ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... . All of this was fine and good, and I kind of enjoyed watching how MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  day. Master a new dish. Sit on the porch with the intention of ... from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks ... on cue.  My mind buzzes at the thought of literally anything besides

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... on the public list. Unfortunately, there was no good way to create this ... informal name for the set of all dorms' social lists. It's the most-used way

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of ... This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  on the T for the last time, all the way at the bottom of the ... , I slept on a bare mattress. It was an awful experience, zero out of ... least, the train came pretty quickly, and then we were on our way! CJ

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  start to discover new layers of your personality and your relationships ... the importance of hard work, persistence, and good friends. You will ... because you’re the kind of person who might love it. Life moves fast here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  challenge is basically a quiz on how fast you can come up with good solutions ... colleges way before senior fall. For a lot of juniors, applying to jobs ... paragraphs and sentences depending on what type of company I'm applying to. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  made of snow and shadows and leans against the wall, melting his way in ... ’t really exist. Where I was standing, a picture of a studfinder rests on the ... familiar odor. You blink. You’re lying on the floor of a dimly-lit machine

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Yellowstone and New Hampshire, have fun :D"][/annotation] And on Saturday ... on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the ... ... REX/Orientation and CPW, on the face of it, seem very similar. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  . The beginning of a new year, or a decade even, always has the wonderful effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... who I was. Unfortunately, some of these websites aren’t around any more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... week, a few of us hacked on tags so that they would support employees ... tireless clacking of keys and another day in software engineering heaven on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  me since I left consulting and moved on to a fast-growing furniture ... changes are good, but others are neutral or negative. Many of them just ... is on remembering the best of who I’ve been and bringing my favorite

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... good at math. My personality consisted of being good at math and enjoying ... enough that I could still think of myself as being good at math, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in ... , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... . Other times I kept something on board for way too long and then wondered ... way I had a group of friends in high school. My most precious MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... .lab project was okay, and so on. I learned that: I had way more projects that ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... fast approaching, so I hastily worked on my Common Application, and sent ... glimmer of hope induced by the relatively lower scores on some parts of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  students who qualify for the SAT waivers, which can be used at good number of ... (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  a new sort of dilemma. You'll find a balance (and maybe stop lurking ... exactly the way you imagined, but getting that seemingly-perfect idea out of ... a cupcake shop, buy a new pair of boots, or preorder that book

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015