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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  . Every senior gets four tickets to give to friends or family for graduation ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... , to get to know each other, we'd failed to attract all the students. For ... get the acronym to work"]VUVUZELA.[/annotation]We write up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  amazing Alumni Directory (https://alum.mit.edu/as/index.html) to get in ... across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH website or talk to friends and neighbors to find the name of specific

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• 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 ... been scared were going to judge me. (If you’re reading this, thank you so

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

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

  

  range from challenges to weaknesses to baseball, poets from your ethnicity ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  to bump my own post... but I also don't want my videos to get ... sometimes. I'll probably post the video and then try to get a little more ... life and things, but I still need to get around to doing a last couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  your dreams are apparent to you, pursue them. Creating optionality and buying lottery tickets are not way stations on the road to pursuing your ... Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  story is to be continued.... Engine Behind every good chess website is a ... protochess differs in the approach, though. The first step to writing your own chess program is picking a way to represent your board. A natural approach

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  , Arts, and Social Sciences) Requirement the previous year. Getting to ... . Yet another way to get involved in governance at MIT is through Dorm ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... ’t focus (quite literally) long enough to find it. I left to pick up some

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

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  One What does it take to get to know someone? I hate the feeling that ... get to know them. Two Once upon a time, my defining feature was being ... don’t make an identity, right? Yet I find it so, so hard to view other

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

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

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  attracted your attention. Our basic approach to the purposes and goals of ... . The Admissions Office looks forward to receiving your application, and ... instructions on page 27. 4. Give the SECONDARY SCHOOL REPORT FORM to your high

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... . Things get heated.  Voices are raised.  We decide to adjourn the ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015