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  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... accurately answer Fatema’s question – 6 directions (one for each face of a cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  Government/Resident Based Advising What will you do with a $10,000 budget? You ... . After all, who wants a Harvard grad to tell us what to do? ... , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  which students can do, well, whatever they want: take classes, do research ... little sidequests, our paths mainly crossing for dinner in a dorm lounge or ... ="attachment_111599" align="alignnone" width="300"] sarah and i on our way to a wallows

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  fonts How do you identify a font? It helps if you've seen it before. This ... do some editing to get them to cooperate. The door's label is not a ... sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces. Second, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  year old, could do a better job than the current members. (Sorry to ... say, not as I do. This was a stupid way to pick a high school, and would ... after a week we were getting kind of sick of doing express

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  . "Yes, you do. We do." A Practical Guide to Evil (2.2m+ words). Content ... , when I was a kid. I learned to fight because that’s what we do. I was ... sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  can help you do things" and you just become a god among your small group ... enough, but there is definitely a lot I still do not know. Pass/No Record ... for them. It's a pretty good system and I enjoy it a lot, but I do want

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  do on a day to day basis: try to make the world suck a little less ... community, each contributing a set of rare skills and perspectives while ... , of course, remarkable intelligence.   a younger me, with some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the river can be a ... like their children are doing while they are here. Since I am involved ... if you are each doing what interests you the most. With hundreds of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  you don’t know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were ... ="attachment_72166" align="alignnone" width="274"]  here's a photo of younger me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... internship. I finished my internship with Microsoft this past summer and got a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  in the eggs?" The answer is simple: we do not have a rooster. There is ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  ! My name is YQ, and I’m one of Lydia’s friends from Random Hall. A few months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  you can do better," and then we worked together to come up with a plan ... that they do in fact believe I ought to become a professional astronomer ... the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  if you haven’t yet, you can take a look right here. MIT: Live the ... summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for ... communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... -of-the-year blogger get-together be held at SkyZone (i.e. playing dodgeball on a court ... like a 4-year-old. I realize that I could write a whole entry on how our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big ... in a circle. We bought balloons, we bought beer and hard lemonade, we made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011