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  “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 ... was making them. It was kind of like I was “trying on” all these ... necessarily looking to work on third-world water purification, either. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then ... would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant ... -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  out on Netflix, and everyone on Twitter and other various group chats ... ? Binging Avatar video essays and calling people to rant about Avatar. On one ... picking three things to focus on very difficult. I didn’t want to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  I am starting this post on Thursday, April 8, 2021, and today, it ... is the spiritual successor to on success, meaning, and time. Obviously ... , opportunities afterward, location, weather, “fit”, and so on. For me, facets like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  the largest women and non-binary community on campus (making up ⅓ of all ... very [annotation note="First years are already on campus for orientation ... partners in crime for the week. I was on the orange PRC team, and it was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  have received on Sunday. We all say that it will get better, that you ... “no”, wishing that something had gone differently, sad that you’re on ... way you wanted. My first graduate school application came back on my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... absorbed into a world on paper. College has effectively eaten up the ... another HASS class to take and landed on CMS.840, which I initially didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  to drive with my dad on a two-lane highway, stick shift, farms on ... before states. Dreaming about nationals. Crying on the bus home when we didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of

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

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  got a 1900 on. I figured I was just being lazy, and could have gotten a ... resonant replies not just on Reddit (over 2,000 upvotes) but rivals almost any entry ever posted on these blogs.  I know I'm retired but Inri137's

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  and drifted towards MIT. We touched on admissions (How's Matt? Matt ... pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... lecture notes, and work on the problem set. I got more work done and learned

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... cohort[/annotation]to reflect on their experience. I’m sharing the ... involved on campus, taking on roles in my dorm and in clubs, and found a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn ... shouted at each other some more, banged our fists on the table, disturbed ... shut up (using choice words that I cannot put on the blogs) and I stayed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  ’s a very silly game Part 3: The why game Free candy On grasping ... whatever they want. This year, Splash happened on [annotation note="so why is ... no clue, but it sounds really cool, based on the description. this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• 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.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... , the thing I am ultimately studying, is young enough that depending on ... . This is the topic that we will focus on: can the Bolyai-Gerwien theorem

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

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  their friends are taking, work on psets together in virtual Zoom lounges ... inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  NOW I AM FACING THE GUILT HEAD ON. TAKE THAT, GUILT.) However, I'm a ... brain and in my hands and on my paper and on my computer screen. That ... to help nudge me along on adventures and help find warm food for my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My ... our materials, we moved on to figuring out the general dimensions we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012