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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  contagious and made every part of the class a great experience.  First ... summary of those results and a full list of the classes submitted! All the ... : The Spanish Incubator (2) 2022 11.011: The Art and Science of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• 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 ... , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was ... Penn. I checked out the university’s website and Wikipedia page. I found

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

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  quiver in fear and make the whole world tremble with the power of your ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... morning. I was on my own for the first time and not feeling alone at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  actually the very first blogger who had to apply for the position, and I ... be brave/bored enough to go back and read the whole mess. Being a ... of different ways over the past eight years and I feel so lucky to have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  continue giving my best every second of my life. And each day for the next ... another soul for sale, oh well The page is out of print, we are not ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  forth. The committee is entirely frosh, and we're excited! Some of us ... 's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and clocked into the material that they flew through it and I sort of ... material on my own. I bombed the first exam and got an email asking if I ... that we didn't understand (of which there were many). And the small class

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  first with: a] the things 1 - a book about conversations and norms ... to soak in the weather, thread bits of yarn through warp and weft, and ... hear about the mundanities and excitements of their daily lives (and to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  are the reviewers taking a bored, cursory glance at the first page and ... and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... , reminding me of the person that could do things effortlessly and successfully

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  pieces. These are our first two decompositions of the two superfigures and ... , and ∑"2. ∑'1 and ∑'2 are the first decomposition of each superfigure ... of them and reading books and books and books about a third. My first

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... naturally attach these terms to the real and painful struggles of homelessness

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• 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

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  , because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the ... could go to the Museum of Fine Arts and talk about all the artwork. We ... can go to a library and get one of the rooms. And we'll talk, quietly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of ... October of the first semester, midnight quasi-philosophical discussions ... tired and full of the next thing you have to do and the last thing you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21 ... of major stars and constellations and some terminology covering the ... messenger chat that was always active, and a room in the fourth floor of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such-and ... probability of serendipity, and I suppose that's how you should describe the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  HELL"—the IHTFP-esque MIT motto of the 1930s—and hauled ... . Turns out this isn't even the first incident of students intentionally ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• 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