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

  

  colorful team names, but many teams have opted to write a short description ... prelude to the Hunt, Palindrome released Star Rats a month in advance, to ... a week or so in advance. And this'd lead to some fun speculation about

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... outlets, because in addition to being a positive human-interest piece it ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• 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 ... , outstanding intellectual aptitude, a desire to use your knowledge in the world ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get

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

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of ... to be present in the now. You won't get the most out of college if you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... want to be, what experiences you need to have to help you get there, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  Saturday or in April, you're going to experience this crazy whirlwind of ... . But somewhere in there, you're going to have this isolated moment where ... ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ambitious in job-hunting (may turn out to be a problem when I get out of ... classroom concepts in a practical environment, you get research experience to ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• 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.

  

  triangles can always be further distributed in discrete chunks to form a ... piece A—to the square S in order to create a supershape M. We can add the ... the problem about polyhedra in general to a problem about tetrahedra. 1

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  get in line. The ticket told me to get in line at 10:30AM. I got there ... when I could get closest to him, and I had a mission. Mission? Allow me ... grabbed some lunch and went to lab to crank out yoyos. A once in a lifetime

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  to be in a startup, like a new burgeoning start-up that’s trying to get its foot in the door, get its bright shiny idea to actually work. Of ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... years in advance and feed any obsession you might have with your lack of a ... different life paths to get a more solid picture of where each of them could

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

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... page, and it led us running to the Infinite Corridor where we found a map

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’ve come a long way and overcome so much this semester to even get here ... campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get ... , and instead put in earplugs to focus. I didn’t just read recitation

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... . It also has a speaker system you can connect your phone to to blast

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  professor or faculty member who helps you to manage your schedule, get a job ... night, I get to put on pants*, step back from a crazy work-filled day, and ... 'm sorry it took me so long to get a first post out; I was waiting until

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009