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

  

  air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... usually fall around 20 and it's really easy to be good buddies with your TAs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  figured I write way too slowly and informally to seriously pursue that idea ... education affords me opportunities to affect my surroundings in ways I ... anyone whose problems don’t seem to be important enough to others to merit

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  with way more than I thought I'd be able to. Several times I drew lines ... to be glimpsed and archived and embarassed in the future by. Here ... how to do it, you've waited too long. You'll raise expectations by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• 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.

  

  x can always be multiplied by some positive value to produce an ... a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the classroom I passed a girl from among my soon-to-be audience. We made eye

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... an idea of what to expect. Boston is a city, and it can be a little ... When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  , beat them down, and not allow yourself to be defined by the school you ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... taught by a specific person. I trust that there were clubs you wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be ... of cases, be willing to help you learn. Sidequest 8: Survive the ... to ever be constructed on this earth, but since its utility to effort

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  I need to be, something I need to be doing, but there's no way to get ... blessed to have friends like these, to be surrounded by people who make me ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  just didn’t want to be sick anymore, and there was no way I was going to ... , bring a giant stuffed animal to your exams. Everyone’s week was way better ... like to live my life, finals and otherwise. I would be much happier, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... , which regrettably distracts me from being able to process what I’m reading ... alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that’s a bit more complicated than to “stop being affected by stereotypes ... less from itself by a culture that wants this to be so. I think it ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  aspirations?(*) (200-­250 words)." And this is what I said. "I aspire to be ... is necessary for self-sustainability) to be kind to myself Xiaolu, my ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We ... slightly shift into a parallelogram. We did our best to combat this by ... . This proved to be a great decision because having functional stairs that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  have to be creative. There are a lot of ways to show your creativity in ... they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... there are infinite ways to demonstrate them. Obviously, there's not some

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

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... of the term. It was doubled by the work I had to make up from the ... completely new, and it felt good to be the nerdy one again. We walked through

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

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

  

  , considering that I never went out of my way to do anything and most of the list ... lost my high Taiwanese standards for bubble tea =p) I hope to be making ... England Aquarium - being a lover of aquariums and having been to half a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to check. I tried to be all nonchalant about it so my mom wouldn’t see my ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of ... , establishing social groups and networking during your first year will be vital to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

   this post by Afeefah!']Non-Stop[/annotation] pace, the experience can be ... the table - ways of seeing that might be unlike my own. I love how ... sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019