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  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  way from the ever-changing home page of today. But it's better than some ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... great height of three feet and the lid broke. I could just use one of my ... bottle cap AGAIN in the exact same place last week. It was on the ledge of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  schools. Incidentally, when I Googled my name the first page of results ... because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ) symmetries of the hydrogen atom, using just symmetry and algebra of groups to ... close to the waves that time) and sand all between its pages. Aside from ... a 10-page term paper on Julius Caesar due this past Monday (the sort

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  rejected from Company A during the first week of IAP, and spent the entirety ... first day of school, smack in the middle of my 7-10 class, I got rejected ... for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  our applicants:  We will not require the SAT or the ACT from first ... note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed ... showed as purple. The downside was that there was a lot of transfer; my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work ... without office hours or the help of others. You'll end up spending twelve ... bed. So don't work in bed, there's a whole campus full of great study

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... the joy of learning. We don’t want a laundry list of a million

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  more than a week's worth of food. The first thing I made was tomatoes ... from the shackles and am finally cooking for myself again. The first ... one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I ... middle of the woods in Vermont (yes, I wear flannel and do square dancing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT ... three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  ; the parental disapproval honestly kind of added to the whole experience ... a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I ... . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  end of the first marking period, or wait until the end of January as ... school, Java counts as Math credit, but I was wondering if the lack of ... Year Grade Report it says to return the form at the end of the second

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  demonstrated track record of (or in their application demonstrate the potential ... mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to express to the world what ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  get out of it on the first floor.) 10. The basement (and MPR) Even ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog ... whole week, and I had to climb up 10 flights of stairs every day

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... , the first assignment was also the most daunting. The prompt was to write

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  feeling it for the first time. The joy of (relative) adulthood, of free time ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  experience. It’s one of the only first come, first served things, and classes ... . At the first meeting... uh, to be honest, the beginning of Taekwondo is ... "]instructor[/annotation] to eventually grasp the first part of the form: low blocks and punches

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021