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Oh look, an update
points in Cambridge and Boston, kind of like Google Maps but local and with -
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learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words
After three and a half years of being at this school, I've taken quite a few classes. What have I even learned from them? I'm bad at ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at -
Blog / Athletics
every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part
rinsed or used mouthwash, and no dentist ever yelled at me because we were ... couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a time without getting ... nine months straight. back when i was at home i would go on runs every -
Blog / Academics & Research
51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts
questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to ... good hands with y'all. Before I met you, one chilly autumn night at ... would compete over who has already done more of the problems. At first, I -
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Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring
thousand times since I’ve arrived at MIT, but it’s never phrased exactly like ... mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at -
Blog / Challenges
Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year
subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... morning, however, when I woke up at 9:29am for the last conference tennis ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... studying astrophysics at M.I.T. had to get him to explain exactly what that -
Blog / About Decisions
Admitted Students Parties Followup
from current students. The Resonance shindig at the end was nothing short ... Resonance and the Logs, heh. I <3 acappella, especially at MIT. Score one ... ?", "Will you be at CPW?" but also other things; for instance, the organizer -
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the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far
. Partly inspired by Google's Talking Shoe (shoutout to Zach, from the team ... early ideas), and also partly inspired by Google Glass. Hey, wearable -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!
design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup begins at 8AM, and the event starts at 5PM, so come with me as we go behind ... ="alignnone" width="768"] slaying[/caption] 10AM - Over at the Media Lab, where MIT -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Not Admitted
happy, and keep taking one step at a time. https://youtu.be/-3U3Sby4zko ... at nightBut no little moonbeams would give me the lightSo me not like -
Blog / How to Human
infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet
corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... strike at a high level my life is not so different from what it was like ... punctuation at the ends of paragraphs the second half of 2023 was absolutely -
Blog / Life after MIT
[Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz
Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over ... the Panama Canal Zone, at the time an American enclave filled with ... become. In 2004, during my tenure as Director of Financial Aid at MIT, I -
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[Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27
A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in -
Blog / Events
total eclipse of the cruft
="alignnone" width="768"] what if we gathered in vermont and stared directly at the sun ... pictures. But some of our cruft are better at words and cameras than me, so ... April 8. I don’t think I’ve ever spent so much time staring at the blue -
Blog / About Decisions
No Ceilings next steps
one step at a time. When I started my freshman year, I simply looked up ... now in my final semester at MIT. I am preparing for graduate school ... ,000,000), but now it's here. Everything I've done up to this point has felt, at -
Blog / How to Food
dinners with friends my wallet is crying
night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... wednesday night, i ate dinner at gyukaku, a yakiniku restaurant in harvard square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from -
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what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus
. you're a charcuterie board devotee and have at least one weird niche ... . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get things done. you seek the familiar, but are also great at going with the -
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W.M.
few strong beliefs about [annotation note="They believed it started at 1 ... professor adored W.M. because they were adept at juggling mathematical ... , not so much, perhaps because they found W.M. rather… uncooperative at