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  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Salvador Luria Ivan Getting '33 was a primer developer of GPS Bose Corporation, founded by MIT Professor Amar Bose Ellen Swallow Richards, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced ... out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... start a jar of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In Italy, in an overcast

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  forget about all the homework I have to do, and for a moment, it'd feel ... could give you a laundry list of fun facts. We can do all the icebreakers ... taken a class there. Here's something I want to do. We'll go to a random

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
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  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus. Buildings in main campus do not have a letter in front and just ... I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... forward a couple of years. Here's what happened this time. An e-mail got

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that ... same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
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  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s, no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
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  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  've spent hours at a time like this, discussing topics ranging from Computer ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... connected them. On the door to the basement stairs I saw a poster advertising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021