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  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  supermoon and a lunar eclipse are scheduled to happen on the same day (night ... . Afterwards, a group of us went down to embark on a long and cold journey to the ... .   creds to Danielle Hecht 19'   On the boat, there was a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• 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 ... finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... hours of 10pm and 2am Saturday night. I was about to put on athletic

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

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... lay in wait. After a chorus of "joyeux anniversaire", which ended on a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to ... Minor on the guitar seems to connect every stage of my life, creating a ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like ... means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... 's quite an active social life on the weekends. There are about a zillion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  promptly going back to sleep. I had never met Regina Spektor, been on a road ... was so cold that I had to stop to warm up on a grate blowing out hot air ... Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not ... prepared. Based on a bevy of data in your application - your scores, your ... , and to capitalize on, their admission. Now, more than half the students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... 's research on playing creativity games with robots, and she's written a few ... a representative example"]papers[/annotation] on how children actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... friends was even a cast member two years ago), but I was always too lazy to ... a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... ’ll need a Windows machine to run SolidWorks, a 3D mechanical design program ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  math, he actually got a 600 on verbal. But lucky for all of us, the MIT ... who's a better writer, and I just took the opportunity to razz him about his writing score, since I got a 790 on the writing SAT II. Me: "Does

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... ="I am not trying to wander into a philosophical discussion here. the point ... overall morality of a decision, but rather that it matters to your personal

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  Officer Sean, wrote a note yesterday on Facebook that moved me to tears. It ... was lit in tribute to MIT police officer Sean A. Collier on the night of ... street. Sometimes I was on campus until 3-4 am and didn’t feel a tinge of

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

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... on my plate. today, i don't even remember what else i had to do. i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015