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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come ... attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... working harder for the sake of it seemed stupid (and I still agree it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  blog post, I thought I'd document the process of my first research submission, and talk about some of the things I've learned about publishing ... the virtual version of the robot, and an embodied version of the robot

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... ) ...balance extracurriculars and schoolwork? As is only inevitable, all of the ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  ’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  official website, and here's the Wikipedia page. This year, the Ig Nobel ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  was the first time I had heard of Penn, and my mind hadn’t yet been ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found ... , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... gender-neutral?), and a Spaniard. As a friend of mine said, it's like the G ... ). New York is a great city, and there has long been a Battle of the Titans

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  the lab and assignments for the rest of session. Office hours were ... . However, I was really daunted by just..the class as a whole and I really ... were trying to accomplish and followed it. I took my 6.08 kit out of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  buildings, like how I talked about the ESP website and Building 20. I first ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  top of the first page. The first paper sat within a mangled page ... of thoughts, those that were for me and those that were against me. The ... damage and small stains from various foods. Neither of the two books were

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there ... . MIT's first classes were held in 1865, and with the first classes came the first course catalog. Note the British spellings catalogue and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  and Life Skills. The website provides a series of videos, quizzes, and ... growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... you don’t. And one of my favorite quotes from the blog that resonated

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it ... lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich ... Director of the Women and Gender Services (WXGS). Today, I’m guest posting

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  explaining it.) Anyway, our first and biggest IFAF of the year was a weekend ... Grey's Anatomy after you've had the worst two exams of your life and are ... potatoes (which included 4 whole sticks of butter, which we all consumed and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's fragments and, in the context of the story, are able to piece together what ... the end of orientation week, the student groups put on a show. The first ... precious few opportunities to extend the lifespan of their club. To the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , last minute SAT IIs and college applications. If there's any part of the ... everyone knows mine! And the whole finding friends, being without family, all ... to get to know everyone who falls out of bed and into 10-250. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ="59025" /] Alan: This was the end of the Orange Line, and therefore also the first ... , finish the bottom half of the Red Line first, do Silver Line 4/5, do the Orange Line and all four branches of the Green Line, and then, in some

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one ... October 8, 1977, the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of AKA was the first sorority on ... presentation and is oftentimes a show of the organization's history, mission

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... clubbing, queer stand-up comedy, and my new hobby. These are the kinds of ... , and discarded some of the darker paragraphs—not because I need to censor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018