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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  because you’re the kind of person who might love it. Life moves fast here ... . Congratulations on your acceptance(s). Best of luck choosing. :) ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  gracefully swept (or brutally pummeled, depending on what day of the week it ... meowed right back. That evening, I was on one of those benches outside the ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  start with my favorite episode, the Hugo-winning “The City on the Edge of ... This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I ... lab this summer, and I'm working on neural development in mice -- one of ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a ... expected from -- MIT students is a core feature of our educational mission

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... ="My first post of the year, on January 2nd. Most of my engagement on Deviant ... on DeviantArt, and sort of mundane updates on Facebook. I wrote about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... software on your language processors. So, for the gentle edification of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  start focusing on some of the more specific features of this year’s fort ... new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... ="the Eastside Party"]a big party[/annotation] on it as part of [annotation note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to ... the frame of the picture. There were two people wearing harnesses on rope, around 5 people on each of the couches, probably more on the table

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  evolutionary biological analysis on why my method of preparing steak is the ... rabbit meat on a piece of plastic wrap. Spread stuffing on top of the meat, then place pieces of pate on the stuffing. Tightly roll in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  wrap up entry that showed the end result of MIT's poll-bombing. Fast ... group set to running the scripts on some of their favorite other schools ... , Wellesley College, and Bob Jones University. None of them had actually been on

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class ... of the class (as measured by the weekly hours on Firehose) and the ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... if you are, like me, on the edges of weighty but possibly ... directions, for any amount of time, toward horizons whose features I can’t see

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

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  the point of all this yammering (and I'd better get to it fast, Adam ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... the tagline of the Burton-Conner t-shirt, featuring Peter Griffin from ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it ... read a very old, very tattered copy of it a couple weeks back, which a ... ? Dumbledore: Hmm...well, actually, hang on. *pulls out old tattered book from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011