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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there ... of potential awesomeness” Francis Lawrence = "the amount of sweat on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  ? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... whole years to learn all about us. And on that note... Take what we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  UROPs. And somehow, despite years of practice, I feel like I’ve only ... closet full of considerably less crewneck sweaters, and I no longer ... one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... our margin of error and chose to proceed with starting work on the ... and finish them very early on. Marlow T. ‘27, one of the other project

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  notice from looking around, and from reading the comments on some of the ... qualities I could go into - appreciation of hands-on work and learning ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  school, to de-stress and distract you: A City on the Edge of Forever ... . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... self-esteem drops to unprecedented lows. I applied early action, and on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  lab this summer, and I'm working on neural development in mice -- one of ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday ... came out and put the seal on the front of the podium, and we all got

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

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... with the values inherent in the choices of this display and are recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things ... somehow orchestrate and compile a specific sequence of events, activities

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and ... asked a bunch of MIT students to say some things about themselves and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the ... while I stare up at the sky. I break out of my reverie and I cant help but ... the Earth’s shadow on the moon, and we’re all here, casting this shadow

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  undergrad who had juggled this project on top of a full course load and other jobs/commitments. In contrast, the main job of PhD students and research ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like ... , and tapes of admissions movies and pictures and unearth anything funny ... campus, and artsy photos of buildings like Kresge. Some of these were

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into my seat and begrudgingly turn off wifi on all my TSA ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  fences, and we live on opposite sides of campus, so our social circles ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and ... , we both were captains of the math team and quiz bowl teams and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020