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  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... my [granted, pretty sharp] 10-year-old brother to understand this, even

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  survivors who get to say pana-panahon lang. [caption id="attachment_67059 ... season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to

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

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  concert that was not going to start until 8 PM that night. (Don't get me ... Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... an important thing. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to get through ... right now. Sure, I tell myself that I’m going to get four years’ worth of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you ... International House of Pancakes, and you don't have to drive to get here. See how ... holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  , unable to get help. A worsening stomachache can lead to appendicitis that ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... internet this fast again. And you will cry yourself to sleep because of that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• 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

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy ... , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  props are fun. I was reluctant to get robes at first, but some generous donations from alums allowed us to all get robes for free. I played as Neville ... MacGuffins, for lack of a better name. Another group was trying to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  confused that they managed to get Simmons right but somehow messed up the MIT ... aerodynamics testing there, and I was sent on a reconnaissance mission--to get ... , a masters student (known affectionately by many as “Blue”) to get us

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  counselors always liked to talk about how we should take care to get eight ... advice to my sisters. I am a girl, which I think is pretty cool. I get ... There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  thought getting people to make art would be cool, so I wrote a spec doc ... and Environmental Engineering to 24: Linguistics and Philosophy. There ... because [annotation note='Catchphrase from Unsong, sometimes shortened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014