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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring, invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  still pretty psyched to get these. This is the moon: And lastly, the ... .03 (Differential Equations) lectures except the first, went to no recitations other ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and I were only able to finish the mechatronic parts of the project by ... .. I need to get back on the grind 🏃 5 - a ceramic fountain that melted ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6 ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I read the page once. I read it again. I changed my Facebook status. I told

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four-legs-on-the ... it into a cart, push it the 1.1 miles to tEp, and then get it out of ... adventures Getting to the roof of tEp took some effort. I would have to take

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... Linn Hobbs. Though tempted by many to begin work at the State Department ... robes required to eat by candlelight), and on the right the Pepys Building

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  whenever I wanted to, read a book, go hiking in the Alps, get to know an ... manager will be okay with that. Figure out how to get the exam proctored ... the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  can drop by anytime the next day or later to get their work. This was my ... thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... off. I sit down to start this blog post (and multitask by texting the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  ’d the test go?” instead of “what’d you get?” and you never have to give a ... by just overexerting myself.  Learn, for the first time, how to ... . Get verbally harassed by the people who pick up the phone because they

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  themselves. As I was getting my food to leave the man in front of me reached ... whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... stark contrast to the brown almost reflective leather shoes, crisply

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm ... " their victim by finding them spoonless off the floor and tagging them ... changed to toothbrush, if you happen upon me anywhere in the greater Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  intersection by getting way into the first assignment for 16.83, which is to ... more than I knew. In time, I started to feel alienated by the corporate ... ways to maneuver despite the constraints on available torque, by taking

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  the core principle is correct. When you get to college - or, for the class of 2011, when you get to the rest of your life - there will be so ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... instructions on page 27. 4. Give the SECONDARY SCHOOL REPORT FORM to your high ... .I.T. 5. Ask two of your teachers to fill out the EVALUATION OF APPLICANT BY

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• 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 ... to a plane, bounded by any number of straight, uncurved lines, the ... continue by looking at the inequalities involving xN−1 and setting xN−1 to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... , it also involved a fantastic team. I was lucky enough to get the ... major in, what student groups and other communities to get involved in—the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  get to the lightbulb moment, week after week. Being surrounded by other ... role is also held by faculty who identify as women) to a part of the ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  's like and to represent our dorm. By the end of February, we've submitted ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For ... to fend for ourselves, lead valiantly by the[annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for ... , people wanting to know if I had been too. The answer to the latter was ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  something you get used to."]building 37[/annotation], as well as the locations ... to get in a class sometimes got in the way of me focusing on the ... a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025