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  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while ... when we all went off to different colleges. It was by chance that Tom and ... many of the teachers' stories. It was a happy visit, but I got back to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to ... how to make it. As I did, they jotted down notes and prodded with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  disciplinary or other action that occurs after your admission to MIT. We have the ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... applicants, we believe it is important to clarify what's important to us as an

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it ... —undergrads and grad students alike! It is enough for every EC resident to eat over ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... . Vacuously true (adj.): A statement is said to be vacuously true if it is ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’t look competitive anymore, but it was because I knew I was going to lose ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... understand now what it means to love myself. It looks like giving myself time

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Immersive Media Production), but it was lotteried and it’s difficult to get ... book; it’s good fiction, even if I definitely wouldn’t want to be friends ... it might look good to other people - do it for yourself! Books I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  it, and I wish I'd gotten a chance to do this earlier. Costuming and ... . But it felt so cool to do the hand movements when casting spells, and it ... , where you have to find the challenges yourself. It starts off with this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  ’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... decided to dissect it. [caption id="attachment_92032" align ... bit. I wasn’t sure whether I imagined it or not, so I left it to see if

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a ... . It's a unique opportunity to put our engineering skills to the test and ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a ... over the years and I figured it was time to share. I believe this is the ... due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I ... chapter would thrive and grow after we left it (and reign for 1000 years ... -day Dynasty family line. True to my wishes, it’s so big now that we’ve never

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  to accompany and support the claims I had made. As one commenter put it ... . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... , either because it is unavailable to you, or because something can't be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  -gatherer predecessors? I think it’s important to acknowledge the very rightful discomfort ... adjectives would you use to describe yourself?” Soon after participants ... nurture,” it does add a tremendous structural asset to the growing mountain

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

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

  

  As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... engrossed by my daily life than the idea of writing it down for future me to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning ... smart enough and that is tied to your worth. It’s tied to your worth and ... ’ll learn how to, I dunno, become a person. And it’s like religion, it’s like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011