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

  

  few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... off in a film on their own after you soak them, and cleaning is easy ... created in 1945, and intentionally made available in a 600-pound, 3,000-watt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your best judgment. It’s okay to say no to things too. Leave space in your ... classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... (complete with snapchat filter) has the answer. This project began in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... in one nonstop 20-hour spurt than in 40 hours of punctuated work time

  • 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.

  

  girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... ... one... The first bite was not that bad. Maybe the nerve endings in my

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

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  undergraduates, even those who have never lived in Burton-Conner, have a wealth of ... and departments, flame wars, and occasionally lost items. In contrast ... restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation video. Caution! Mild condiment violence to follow. In case you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus, and about another 24 percent of students live in [annotation note ... elsewhere in non-MIT affiliated housing. There's a lot of pros and cons to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ...  I experienced Splash this year. For reasons I’ll talk about later in this post ... ’s some contents: Part 1: Hi, are you interested in teaching for Splash

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  sturdy carapace, unparalleled scavenging prowess, and ability to fly. In other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams for a reason, and each team carries its own traditions, culture, and in ... submitting ridiculous dance videos? Well, one of the puzzles in this hunt was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  Here's a post I made in my personal blog, around a year ago, talking ... fourth post in a four-part series, so here’s some context. I went to the admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e ... eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... snow today, it didn't. In December. If you live in the northeast, that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... ordinary. Sometimes it's small, a chainsaw in a wooden case, sitting in a ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... getting in were, or who posted their very high SAT scores and then asked if ... who get in vs. the ones who don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  of many things. Quarantining for COVID in the safety of my room has ... careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... stories. Not so great for lying awake in the dark at 3am. My family on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022