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• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... , too. This isn't to say that you should ask upperclassmen for help all ... advice will probably be more directly related to what you need to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright ... magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  i'm not necessarily going to dinner for the food today: i just know ... where the list isn't really going to get any more comprehensive because ... outside of hall). this is normal, and usually leads to game stagnation for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... . I found out that I actually enjoy coding enough to do it for hours at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  graduation. For decades, almost every student to graduate from Deerfield had ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework ... ’t seem to be ticking as fast. Or as consistently. Or with as much purpose

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... Mother, waiting for her to add her voice to mine, but she was silent. Her

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  to the Earth and begin transmit it. The New Horizons team estimates 16 ... Pluto for 35 years and helped design the New Horizon's spacecraft. “Just ... went over New Zealand on June 29 to catch the stellar occultation of of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new ... is where I continue to work on ElectroPlushies and get them up and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast ... From the article "Engineering changes for the better in Haiti: Local activist joins up with MIT instructor" By Ron Fletcher The Boston Globe June

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it ... Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering ... fraternity/sorority and don’t have big productions to put on for your

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  honestly, most of the quotes that get sent to this list have similar energies ... ...on the toilet!" “I tried, and by tried I mean meticulously googled ... that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  or brush it aside, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details from ... , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  wrong in a house! Studying: I need to get credit for 18.03, Differential ... Cambridge, but I'd have to search for housing in San Francisco. Also, I knew ... contractor work for them. I'm doing everything from content writing to full

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022