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  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , or a smaller department that lets you get to know faculty more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• 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 / 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 / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  , and try to really get to know the people I loved before all of us ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... wasn’t going to get accepted, I stopped being super formal in my update

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

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  you don't get to take the HASS you want to take that semester. I ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take ... serve as the repository of courses that I likely won't get to fit into my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• 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 ... to a plane, bounded by any number of straight, uncurved lines, the

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

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  :   (Now let me just preface my $0.02 that I'm about to spill by saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business ... [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy

  • 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 / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  be having our reception. Our first dance was to "Everything I Do" by ... sophomore, my friend Carl '07 introduced me to a cute curly-haired aerospace ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... so much =p, and you have to narrow your list down after you get the ... ? Sure, it's safe to get strawberry (that's what I always get. XP) But why

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was ... to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... students than we would be able to by ourselves."]Other Universities ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
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  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be ... in ten-minute-long songs by Opeth to annoy me sometimes, which I ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  /scanner to me. It's being renovated right now, and I really hope I'll get to ... up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  size and infrastructure required. When I needed to get out and actually ... ! And that gets us to today! I’m just finishing up the cross stitch for ... try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  get to the point where I am now -- where the mirrors I look into are ... people get the chance to speak, I guess? Like, bisexual erasure is real ... , meant everything to me. *by “saying those words” I obviously mean

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• 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 ... right place would be the one with the right "fit". I know by September

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  "]basics of cooking,[/annotation] but it's very easy to get caught up in the ... 's no better way to avoid over or under-doing anything than by just doing ... : designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
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  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 ... will always be there for me, I console myself by looking forward to what

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018