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  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  complete by the summer. Sidequest 5: Pull a cool hack. Only Jack Florey will ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... downstream. But I had a map in hand, and I was determined to reach the X I had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• 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.

  

  to a plane, bounded by any number of straight, uncurved lines, the ... entirely by the students: in my experience so far, after a few starter lectures by the professor every student presents three lectures as a

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... watch freshmen do MIT and I've learned a lot about parents just by ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  hard to come by these days. So I decided to follow a religion, the ... somewhat lightened up as I witnessed how many people stopped by to ask where ... throughout the night to make sure that everything was fine. There are emergency

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I ... and talked to the Potential New Members myself. There was a lot of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  've never had to make a decision this hard before. This is blatantly false ... strange that people could commit to a college much like one could commit to ... custody", to "trust oneself completely to", to "bring into danger by an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  role is also held by faculty who identify as women) to a part of the ... fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They

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

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

  

  will have to complete an add-drop form if you want to make any changes ... people just submit one or two classes to make the deadline while they ... 't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... the slides—throwback to 18.06. This 18-letter word—a ... ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  control can make getting out of bed to complete your final really hard, or ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... Services will add an X and make it a pair. In my circles, it’s a pretty well

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was ... can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  been hit by a car here, the closest I’ve ever gotten to death or certain ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... ’s worth a read.) I’ve started three other aborted blog posts trying to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine ... college—every connection you make, no matter how brief, will leave a mark ... , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012