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  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  very much builds on itself, and if you miss a vital piece of foundation ... the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to ... of square roots and cube roots, although it's huge and impractical

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in attendance. Last night, my parents, my brother and I gathered for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  education at MIT. I'm smart, okay, but I'm not, and never have been, one of ... pool. 2005: Excellent, and better than the majority of people who were ... handful of A-'s, and I took lots of honors classes and three AP's. (None of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  flood of celebrations - all to commemorate MIT’s 150th year. These celebrations have been covered here and there on the blogs (Convocation, Public ... land. My friend and I are sitting on a land orb as it changes color.) I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  Advising is actually an academic subject worth 6 units of credit and has ... Advising, Seminar Advising brings a focus on a particular subject and ... , we have an array of optional events and six mandatory events. These

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of ... of recipes and the ingredients that they require. Put in the days ... to keep cooking, but as entropy in the form of psets and classes would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... trip in New Hampshire and fall down a slope and break my collarbone on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  freshman year was completely virtual and although some of us were on campus ... classes and figure out building numbers. And all of this was on top of ... serve my classmates well. On top of the Undergraduate Association and my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  semester. So based on suggestions from some of you, I'm going to host an ... hour. And voilà! Sanity restored, in the depths of a stormy week. ... About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an ... possession of the ball. During PKs, I heard an Italian trattoria erupt and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely ... should wait around for McDreamy or move on with her life? And wasn't the ... In honor of some holiday, MIT's Laboratory for Chocolate Science

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  this) But after stuffing our pockets full of Snickers, Crunches, and ... around.  And so we trudged, stomachs full of chocolate and minds full of guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  I made some of my best friends, and where I got to use a bit of my own ... /cabinet/shelf (or whatever method of food storage you might use) and concoct a meat ... included chicken, tomatoes, onions, black beans and pasta. My variety of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  've spent the past several weeks with many of my colleagues, working long days and nights to match up all 1,100+ of you coming this weekend with ... , both in Killian Hall (14W-111) ...and that's just the tip of the iceberg

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  assume a challenging leadership role early on, and an opportunity to serve ... from MIT on a Friday morning in June and received our commissions that ... window into the everyday lives of our cadets and midshipmen, this blog will

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  , four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on ... " with "three and more!" Note that out of about ten people in the marching ... 't recognize you. And that is why you should have a beard at MIT. On the first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  Lobby 7. Paul and I will be on Smallish Momenta (an anagram of "Simmons ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... Magazine, Wikipedia, and NPR's This American Life. Lots of MIT students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  as possible here on campus. Also, congrats Kate on your speech and ... Women Rock, but let's broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize ... in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011