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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  quiver in fear and make the whole world tremble with the power of your ... waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was ... was the first time I had heard of Penn, and my mind hadn’t yet been ... pure, crazy anxiety permeating the pages of CollegeConfidential was this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger ... fall! Interstellar was created by four students in the class of 2022 ... Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... difficult for those who may not even realize the immense potential of ... these opportunities, there are so many things that can limit the use of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers ... . The room reeked of the moldy coffee that had been sitting in the coffee

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• 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…

  

  days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation

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

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  are the reviewers taking a bored, cursory glance at the first page and ... and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• 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.

  

  nor equicomplementable. Hilbert’s third problem was the first of the 23 to be solved. The first part of the problem, on equidecomposability ... gets the same whole number of pearls no matter which of the two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  was, which really accentuated the whole herd-animal dynamic of it all ... and then making the first, generous donation; Shannon Larkin of CMS ... indoor track, mentally planning what I would do in the case of a zombie

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21 ... , hundreds of words flowing easily onto the page. there are some memories that ... through the whole spectrum of human emotion in just an hour.[/caption] i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... like applying to colleges, you have to apply to a whole bunch of jobs

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  sketchbook pages over the course of 2024. However, in the middle of the spring ... of the final eight-page layout of the spread, though it was really a ... prompt for the first project was to make an analog camera capable of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  October of the first semester, midnight quasi-philosophical discussions ... work or results. The definition of the MIT experience, however, is not ... self arrives to campus, you’re given a booklet with pages and pages of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  . Turns out this isn't even the first incident of students intentionally ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ."]plot points,[/annotation] the 2003 Hunt was the first to have many pages of ... , wrote the I.A.P. Mystery Hunt, a single page of twelve clues. When Brad ... audience and popularity grew over time. The first Hunts had dozens of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  write a book, dash out ten pages of nonsense fantasy fiction, and promptly ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... scenes, people, and places--nothing that encompassed the whole time period

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  of the pages. Ethan's job is sign all pages he believes are ready. This ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011