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  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  snowboarding lesson that would often be able to do things on the first or second ... you'll fall as soon as you try to get up and it'll hurt, and other times ... class) will go faster than you're comfortable with and you'll just hope to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  hugging your laptop, which is still on, so it doesn't get stolen; also, you ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  range from challenges to weaknesses to baseball, poets from your ethnicity ... flew to California. The actual interviews take place on Saturday, but all Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... . They want you to apply your knowledge to problems that take hours and ... rolled around, and this time, I was much more ready to take on challenges

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... to 7–10). on average, mit students take 54 units each semester."]60 ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  orientation and had to go through storing everything on my own every summer. You know what builds character? Having to pack up all your crap on your own ... some people get stuck playing the game of life on a much harder level

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... back to that night, which began on the fourth floor Haus balcony where I ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation ... on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• 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.

  

  .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know ... a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the

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

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  coffee, and you keep getting ritually down on your big knees every morning ... sufficient to get me through secondary school and my undergraduate education. It was not enough to get me through MIT. I enrolled as a graduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  waiting on me to come home.   I have mostly avoided going into detail on here about getting admitted, because I think it's not that great of ... know I would have done anything to get in, and still would. Depression

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  a lot to get down and little time to do it, I’ll write one long ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a ... do you mean you’re waiting for your refund to hit?  What do you mean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  this past Saturday, on the evening of the Old New Year’s Day. The ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith ... club to get off the ground, but maybe in the future... So I am a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  also draw your attention to the U.S. government’s brief on behalf of the ... on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right ... bottom, what seems to be at stake in this case — based on oral arguments

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  nights when I didn’t even want to think about walking across campus to get ... Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... own, kindness is the first thing I will try to teach them. Passing on

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to ... humankind, working with others to bring knowledge to bear on the world’s great

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024