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  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  to make huge and sweeping changes to try and find better ways to do ... guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was ... ’m having mixed feelings about. On one hand, it’s miserable to be consumed by ... -Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by ... experiences both horrifying and fulfilling to make it happen. There are plenty ... to be glimpsed and archived and embarassed in the future by. Here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  , experiences, and stories that make me feel comfortable and safe. It’s nice to go ... means it is customary to make wishes and toasts. I toast the adventures ... Cook barley in a pot on the stove. Make according to store directions. As

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... idea was to make a machine that could replicate and draw calligraphic ... and I were only able to finish the mechatronic parts of the project by

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

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  succeeded somewhere else. Everybody loses. And I hate to lose. By the same ... who apply to MIT every year are qualified for admittance, by which I ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... dangerous of all, fail to make it absolutely clear that you believe in every ... even shifted the coins at the edges to make them line up perfectly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  .20 (Human Physiology) when my email came, so I had to refrain from making a ... .5 hours they came back to make the announcement, lining up in a very ... As promised, an awesome guest entry - written by the wonderful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  you happen to make a really good friend!). But even beyond this, I ... ! Definitely don't make it to everything! Have fun anyway!"), but despite that ... yourself to anyone means that you won't start to exercise your making

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in ... , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, painted by Drew A. ‘08: our familiar

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  to tell you about this semester. Eventually, one-by-one, they will ... finals—so all-in-all, I was happy. Senior week went by quickly. There were ... line goes "how lucky am I to have something which makes saying goodbye so

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other ... the hopes of making the top twenty, out of which the Philippine team to ... grade—but I never made it. I was never good enough to make the IMO team

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  make a sandbox style game where children could place various objects to ... your mistakes. I also had to make a video submission explaining the ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by ... about us was told to me by her best friend from college, who said that ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  kind of an asshole, I try to live by his philosophy of adhering strictly ... inclined to take any of his classes anymore. Brave New World by Aldous ... brightest note. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell “My life amounts to no more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  classes. They’re not the same.  Applying to things only makes this worse ... together. Whether you’ve decided to try to find a job, or apply for graduate school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021