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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . The answer is no, it did not. The supports kept it entirely still. Some ... programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion ... symbols in the house were squids and [annotation note="Purple is one of Tau

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  students and parents, this is simply not the case. If you approach the ... of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom ... about the difficulty in selecting the students who will ultimately be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... test it out. I’m not sure why Larry took the drone the beach, as opposed ... out sailing. He is so insanely generous that, on the last day of summer

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... and we should be friends. The point is, MIT classes being hard, you don ... nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the

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

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  , Fear Level is inversely proportional to The Number Of Seconds I Think I ... The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... . This is improvisation: there is no script, no written notes - just blank

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  , toss that in the pot to brown. If not, skip this step. When the meat is ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... make it have a height, and thus, the cube is born. You can also input

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  reaction, though it may not necessarily be strong enough to prevent the ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i ... application is probably one of the spookiest things you will do in your life and ... close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  it's open to the whole (of age) MIT community, this is not a good place ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  .g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... the Internet (even typing that number is terribly guilt-inducing, BUT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  quivering mess the first time we had to do that, and not because the water was ... challenge. But is it sustainable to undertake it all the time? What I really ... turn around and dive in. And while there is more pressure the deeper you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  ’ve never had froyo or do not like it. But my concern is: although froyo is ... : campusfood.com is probably the root of Freshman-15 and much college ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  that’s starting from the end, which is cheating. You know the end. The end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  as they wanted, so some bloggers chose not to take some of the tests ... enneagram results, which I found hard to graph meaningfully. The zodiac is ... is real and the 2022s know it"   Elizabeth C. ‘13 Pisces Goat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the line is his writing!  My name is Zack and this year, I was one of ... accurately is relatively challenging, however. One of the other project leads ... the fort’s rectangular footprint.  This method is effective in theory

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  's your chance. (There are five parts in the series; Your Last First Day is the last part. Each part is roughly as long as this blog post ... a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022