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I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.
through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test ... identifying your primary carbon, you'll just be like "Oh, that's hexa-para ... do hundreds of pages of practice problems in preparation for the next -
Blog / Admissions
Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!
chipping away at them more slowly than usual because the volume has been so ... . Interviewers still have time to respond to you and do the interview. Gently ... take us a few days to do this). That interviewer may be willing to do the -
Blog / Challenges
A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths
volume: Retro Synthesis Now, for the strategy. There's only ever really ... very v e r y l o n g d a y s. And while leaving my dorm at 8:30 every ... Shall Not Be Named." Because I knew I could do so much better than I was -
Blog / Events
“Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*
Nobel Awards. No, I don't know if he keeps the pig around constantly. I do -
Blog / Admissions
Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.
most excited about was seeing a building designed by Frank O. Gehry ... 't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York
This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... night.” - Marie de A. ‘18 (not pictured, but the top of the doorframe ... roughly translates to, "O avalanche, won't you come down and carry me away -
Blog / Academics & Research
What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them
simpler terms, if you prefer: O - “You didn’t take the final or do the ... symbols where your letter grades should go. For me, these were: O ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
Landers for being accepted to MIT," said Project STEEM director Kerri O ... letters of recommendation for them for MIT, and I know that they will do ... MIT-bound math whiz is latest triumph for O'Bryant By James Vaznis Globe Staff -
Blog / Academics & Research
Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.
to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it ... vibrate. As we turned up the volume, the molecules in the glass vibrated ... .13 reaction: who cares? How do you even pronounce “amines”, anyway?” The post-5 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy
Pumpkin Waltz” on full blast!! Instant party saver. I do really want that ... ’s article speaks volumes about society today. “In science fiction, the ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/1O9E3WsDI2LG8jTO0m3plM?si=22f3a772e32e477b Bone Apple Teeth! -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…
announcing the 70 meetings we'll be doing across the country this fall. We call ... , Northern Virginia, Montgomery County (MD), Wilmington (DE), Greensboro ... ), and Sacramento. Wow that's a lot of travel! This year, I'll be doing CMs -
Blog / About Decisions
Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh
125 mln volumes. (More best-selling rejections here.) But it's probably ... !) Just do it later by The Oatmeal How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific ... Pancake Breaking Normal by ze frank Take the Human Test (Volume 1) by ze frank It -
Blog / How to Human
Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery
.e. to do what I'm doing [annotation note="So how am I able to write this ... 's easier to tell what's happening and know what I need to do (and what I need to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned -
Blog / MIT Life
Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*
they start the spring semester weeks before we do because we have IAP. So ... 't really like home that much I decided to stay at my boyfriend's home in DE -
Blog / MIT Life
Some summer pictures
I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from Switzerland, so I'll be doing that gradually (I have lots of pictures), mixed in ... , Baron Pierre de Coubertin (who founded the modern Olympic games) is buried -
Blog / Events
Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.
's Peter de Florez Fund for Humor, UA Finboard, and ARCADE. For information ... ://web.mit.edu/hillel/www/latke-hamentashen-debate.html Option 2: Tired of Ramen for dinner? Wish you could do something to make -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…
. Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for ... programs like "The O'Reilly Factor." On the show, Colbert plays a character modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in -
Blog / Admissions
The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present
Meeting Neil DeGrasse Tyson by Anna at ~189k views How To Do Everything ... Becca H. '12 Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch by Rachel F. '12 Do I have a ... and Back by Mitra L. '07, Sam M. '07, and Bryan O. '07 These are, in my -
Blog / MISTI
The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering
projects to improve life in impoverished communities at Tecnologico de ... -France Program 2011 Internship: Électricté de France, Clamart ... something to see and do. From Paris, the TGV can also take you to the rest of