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• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... starters, Lobby 7, the entrance to MIT from the road, was transformed into a ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  suddenly felt very old. To add to this, I have to declare a major by April ... , in some cases!) to work, a task made difficult by non ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  tortuous sense of "best" and "imaginable." To show what I mean by example ... deliver* a sandwich to the first person(s) to solve it from scratch**. *The ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... , which seems just so MIT to me: ''Whenever I see a problem, I become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  long-awaited decision to join pika by scrawling “I PLEDGE!!!” on a roll ... offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very ... battle scenes in Lord of the Rings allow pika to run a meal plan 7 days a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  , worked together to make an animated short, and worked a lot on our blogger ... . Aside from that we played around with Unity and tried to make a few scenes ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  make your flight. Even though it’s rush hour, the Silver Line to the ... sister, only to happen about the – well – insanity caused by the rally ... adding Halloween to my blog post, but it was a rather quiet Halloween in my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but ... ’d like to pretend that I was a hard working kid who studied a lot and did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  strangled alive by now. I imagine she was a kind, gentle soul once. But after ... . Thankfully, after a panicked email, I received money from MIT-Eurasia to fix ... ) could finally take a turn for the better. “My phone’s broken,” I said to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to ... this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... . Basically, anything that is designed to quantify a process will not only be attacked by corruption, it will also begin to corrupt the process it had been

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  forces you to study and furthermore provides you with a wide range of study ... are! Courses are useful to some; I just like independence a little too ... a few details; to supplement the Examkrackers materials, I used

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  feeling of excellence and as a result, make you happier. According to the ... course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  interning or working for the fam (which, by the way, adds up to 40 hours a ... rustle the trees. I gain some perspective. I make plans to call a friend ... crazy, but that makes it even more important to step away and take a break

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  matters sometimes, but having someone to help prioritize makes a world of ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of ... being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  know what it's going to be about. Meanwhile, since I'm being hosed by my ... subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We'll see how that turns out. The application part ought to make it easier to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  CourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her ... by... a professor?!? Yes, Prof. Maria Zuber, a planetary geophysicist ... top N items, so for those you should make a judgment call about which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . It was a no-brainer -- I hustled to Next House as fast as possible and ... that I'd try to narrate her story by myself, but I soon realized that ... decided to let her "write" this entry in some sense -- I asked her a few

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge jump to what might appear to be a TOTALLY different subject, but it ... there anyway I can make a random donation of like $4.17 to the financial

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008