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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  : 1) Google's homepage. 2) My favorite constellation is the APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the seven daughters (the constellation is also called "The Seven Sisters") of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... make one this year. Also, these posts are basically the only point all ... 1: Learn the building numbers – 99% complete. I'm SO CLOSE. I just had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  the classes i'm taking this semester yet. i'll talk about my three ... fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I'm with you The only way that I can be Until you're in my ... Coco; a full, encapsulating, body-shaking sob. Even minutes after the ... grandparents' dingy silver car and bracing myself for the nervewracking car ride

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  the family, the death of a friend, the sadness of a friend, an angry anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these all are very ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  away from the action as possible, shrieking "OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY ... in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm ... , and the cars and river add comforting background noise. When no one else

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently ... travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information ... something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it ... those feelings to the side, but now that spring classes have started, it feels like the clock is ticking louder than ever and choosing classes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  goal, because, you know, classes. Without further ado, here are the ... .03: Intermediate Microeconomics This is the last [annotation note="Humanities, Arts ... economics papers + discuss them"][/annotation]So far, I like the professor and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... took computer repair classes to prepare for the CompTIA A+ certfication ... $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other ... no concrete future plans hammered down, this feels different. The ... think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very ... ’s 2021 Blogger Wrapped post that said Indie Pop was the top Genre ... it. Everyone go read her blog to show appreciation for the good work

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... while writing these blogposts. Which is perhaps, inadvisable. Back to the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... /c^2)*sqrt(-1)*(PV/nR).” As much as the items sold there are decent, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020