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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... highly accurate caricature of itself Lulu on surviving MIT optimizing your ... of your four years Keri on how having too many extracurriculars is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  "New Techs". A lot of these sentiments are reflected in the interns in ... work on so we can get a better idea of what team we'd want to join if we ... , no glimmer or sheen of opportunity; just words on a screen. I couldn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -joke. On top of the TV was a webcam, which streamed a video feed of the ... beginning of the hunt, with less puzzles available to work on, but Galactic ... on the same puzzle, even if it already had a lot of people working on

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

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  alumni, bringing them up to date on new things this year, and answering ... when I was at MIT (on the crew) and on top of that I had a job, did ... is true in all of our activities, and equally true on our sports teams

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  school when she began to think about college, specifically HBCUs. On top of ... having a lot of Greek on campus, but in recent years it has gotten smaller ... October 8, 1977, the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of AKA was the first sorority on

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  . There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new ... Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• 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?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds 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

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  student groups on campus, WMBR has one of the largest direct community and ... /Harvard/Boston community have regular weekly shows, some of which have been on the air for ... lot of variation in what goes on the air, and most of the shows have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  toilet on stage), the products don’t start out that way. The theme of ... focusing on building up an alpha prototype of one particular idea. Apple ... . Instead, fast and low-fidelity mockups (like rough cutting blocks of foam

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... reasonably conclude that women score lower on certain types of tests as a ... brought on this result. The question of interest, then, becomes “which

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  was collapse on my couch and burrow under two blankets. I had a lot of ... do any of it. Instead, my mom came and sat next to me, and we did New ... As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... for $5, and that's on top of our already low prices," said Rauch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• 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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  place, sharing thoughts and experiences on many of the topics I discuss ... recorded instance of "puzzle hunt". In those days the hunts started on Monday ... written by a single person and printed on a sheet of paper, today's Hunts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  of presenters, a freshman volunteer would come on stage with a bag ... the iconic beaver on it. But our ring this year, in 2018, the year of ... corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... forms, it's a very subtle misattribution of traits based on the ontologies ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  in New York, the vast majority of people you see on Edgware Road are ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my ... embarking on that new chapter quickly passed sometime early the following day

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you're in your room, that ... is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021