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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  (which, by the way, is very good). Demystifying Cryptography, a class ... ] the weekend before Thanksgiving. To me, the easiest way to explain Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... the morning, whenever morning is. iCal, Google Calendar, or another ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  an opening to introduce the Jim Mar Test. Used by Mar to evaluate ... propelled by a sort of fanaticism much in the way that marathon runners are ... by an inbred desire to "succeed," in the vaguest possible sense of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , even down to the blogs now, is shaped by these experiences. Even when it ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... involves Einstein, but the other - and the first angle I'll try - is to tell

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, painted by Drew A. ‘08: our familiar ...  improbably large battle station, the X Wing is the type of small star fighter used by ... 18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by

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

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... . 9) Rain boots are a way of life. This may apply to the female ... wrote relate somehow to the computer or Internet...Is it a blogger

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions ... goal is to be able to get Riley to ride the Red Line and behave in the ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  Scholarship is the most selective graduate fellowship available to American ... to: “Why?”. At first I thought, “Tsk, the answer to that is both ... around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  way. The most important part of your job is to remove the roadblocks and ... regularly to ask what the secret is to getting in. My answer hasn't changed ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  , using the most comprehensive, unbiased data available to me (which is ... , the probability of A given that B has happened or is true is equal to ... : Underwear Color by Day of the Week The radial axis is the percent of underwear

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... think, is beginning to adapt around the growing community. This year, as a ... kickoff. We laughed as the countdown made way to another countdown, bopped

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  abroad was my way out, my saving grace. It was the best excuse to step away ... they will get things done quickly and efficiently so no need to worry ... in the mail, but now you have to send in your passport to the Swiss

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  intended to read this year: On the Way to a Smile and The Kids are Alright ... ’m determined to work up the motivation to get back into it, though! Killing ... implying here that the Church is an enemy to human progress and tries to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  us in the heart the way nothing else can. Another HUGE factor is that ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... consuming. So the biggest question we are trying to answer now is: should we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  place that's supposedly your home to the people who supposedly know you ... getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm ... quickly fell to the wayside when I realized the department of aeronautics

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  surrounded by people that know what is around the corner miles before they get ... account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... chance. Also, if you are remotely interested, the best way to learn more ... , someone else in the house is, too. It’s also way more fun to do work around

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  focus of 2.009 is trying to prove out ideas as quickly as possible. Often, making a computer 3D model isn’t the best way to start an idea ... energy is starting to dip. By 11pm, the reviewers are finally all gone

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015