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

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles! if you prefer reading your information you can read the blog down below ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken

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

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a ... at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year ... ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because ... ; Well, it turns out that looking like twins, being from the same small

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... (generally, when anyone's phone ever rings everybody in the room goes "WHAT THE ... . I bought all of this ahead of time except for the pillows just because

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... for the prompt “Picture the one person in the world you really wish were

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  the past 4 days studying as much as I could, yet by the time I tallied up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  , there's so many cool -- FROSH: isn't that the ...you know ... clothing ... mean the roller coaster's pretty cool FROSH: but i would never live ... : no we skipped it * * * ME: are you going to the activities midway

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... information session, without fail I am asked the same question. This question

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  我没去过北京 在外国出生的孩子的故事

  

  (Read the English version here!)     我没去过北京。我们回中国去的时候，总是去上海、南京、杭州，总是在江苏一带。我记得，我小的时候还能说上海话（我三、四岁的时候，外婆照顾我，我就学了上海话）。 我第一次去中国是四岁的时候。我们到了上海就去我亲戚的家了。我只有一个清楚的记忆：有一天，我阿姨要让我小睡一下。她告诉我，“如果你不睡觉，叔叔会切掉你的鼻子！”。 我还不知道这个记忆是真实的还是来自我的梦，可是我知道以前我就会说上海话，可是现在回想起这个记忆，是英文的。 我小的时候

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  will cover a couple different trips over the past few months. And since 90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

   Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  soon enough; for now you can check out the awesome article above which proves that even 100 million years ago, the beaver was dominating the area ... DID YOU KNOW? A jurassic beaver once ruled the riverbank. I've had an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  new one, because I figure this one has the SEO. I still think most of ... tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... , make your case, even save lives: Edward Tufte argues that the Challenger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012