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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... Sunday October 21, there was a Gangnam Style flashmob on Killian Court ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... the very same Colin who was accepted to MIT on the day I was deferred

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  /musing on the topic, I’ve gotten a bit closer to an answer, but the same sort ... insights on how to go forth and study a range of different subjects. Plus ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to ... Family Guy, which is a pun on the fact that Burton-Conner has suites rather

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  that they didn't always seem to grasp its impact on a higher, societal ... give it to me. If you needed help, if you wanted to work on a great ... trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  create a system that lets them drive a go-cart. Now they're working on ... ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  around on-campus before rushing back to my dorm in the midst of a panic ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and ... post more lighthearted content, but this is a topic that means a lot to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  game theory class I took on listener. I especially made sure to add a ... doc with some details that I gave to artists. This turned out to be a ... , others take a few weeks of incremental progress. I forgot to account for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  on competing next year for sure. To start, competitors had to define a ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... of ingredients turns into a mountain of cookies[/caption] To make a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to ... over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid 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

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a tactical vest and be very nice to everyone on campus). But what really sets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s ... around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 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 ... $50,000 a year to pay for tuition. As such, parents want to see that ... to figure out a system that works for you. Time management is really

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• 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 ... motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you

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

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015