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• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  homework at my desk. Somehow, I’ll have to swap the idea of MIT for what is actually is–somewhere I love, but not in the ways I expected.   ... ’t that guy. It was the shiny box I put myself into not because I wanted to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads ... mailing list. the other strategy i've seen is having alumni stick around ... they're available to help the students who do run things. not only are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember ... cooking our own food, if we so choose. Many people embrace the kitchens and cook almost all of their meals there. I'm not very cooking-inclined, nor

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... -Nehisi Coates told me a few years ago, "that James Baldwin is the baddest dude

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  started again! As promised: the continuation - 51. Stitch is wildly ... Japanese - is also very popular here. The title song is playing nonstop in ... /serious injury to the person (these are usually suicides). Perhaps not too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the incompetent. # Sign-ins should not be seen by the general public. Sign ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... weeks of each other is nonzero. 6. Given the above hypotheses, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  top three. (Surprisingly, No. 1 Party Anthem is not a song by The Smiths ... period at MIT! wait... that's not quite right... Uhh, the weekend before ... Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  life, the Infinite Corridor from 9 AM – 5 PM every weekday is 251 meters ... . What the heck, thought I, a wave reflector is a wave reflector. Into my ... . Cheapness is a nirvana, and the road to enlightenment is lined with random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  accelerator? That’s okay, because the internet is a helpful thing!) (Don’t want ... It may seem far away now, but next year is just around the corner. Pay ... Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... out. Well, the fact is we often find ourselves saying something similar

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT ... was this Tuesday) is not the end-all of class registration. You can show ... which there is no going back. I experienced… Apple Juice Liberation. You

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do ... dyeing my hair is one. First was PB&J. (hair 1) The day that I moved ... first application of bleach to not touch the lightened section, but I got

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  admissions season, here is every single track on the album and its applicant ... student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... And the road not taken looks real good now Time flies, messy as the mud

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan ... categories are: • Homegrown Proposal The project is conducted in a home ... -Based Proposal The project is conducted in a professional setting, such as a school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  the 5.310 (Experimental Chemistry) lab. Though the lab period is ... : Getting Our Money's Worth of 'Healthness.'" What is healthness (not a typo ... alone someone who is basically in charge of protecting the health of our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  -life appear to be well, not that different. The last question of an Orgo exam is always predictable: the infamous synthesis question. The task is ... your final product. There is one big thing to notice here. With the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military ... twenty-four hours. I did not enjoy studying for them. I did not find the ... set at night and rise again in the morning. I could not have everything

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... seven countries to the US through Logan Airport. This order is in effect ... a directly affected member of the MIT community who is currently

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours ... habit. Part of it is the timing of the night meetings; another part is ... When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005