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

  

  : Person A: Pass the salt, please. Person B: Is your request a function of the underseasoning of the fish sticks, or is it a function of the ... because half of zero is zero, which is the amount of time that the student

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... /her, and ultimately most of us usually like the person we have become over ... based on its known coordinates. It wasn't much of a program, but while

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... wager that half of the successful and famous people will tell you, “just ... the love of his life. Forgive me if I spoil the ending, but “Jay Gatsby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  was possible, or both. The chainsaw hack is an excellent example of the ... around campus. MIT is blessed with buildings that kind of look like the ... else. The reason for this is because most of the things that hackers have

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  , and did. *** Now I am back in Cambridge. It is the morning of the ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bacteria. One of the ingredients is "extract of autolyzed yeast", which I ... spec the DNAs some other time..." The moral of the story is that lab ... think it's worth noting that this is really an issue of the US government

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... protest is being held, explicitly or implicitly, over the heads of our ... remain consistent with the high levels of integrity that you have shown in

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

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

  

  my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the ... proportion of the self-reported underwear colors is real and what proportion is ... ’ Theorem, which I think, based on my 5.59 years of experience, is the very

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

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... lobby 7. This is a place of dreamers, thinkers, and creators. The ... the more unsung parts of MIT: People here are very clever. You see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  to live, and is currently one of the oldest and proudest residents of ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... a stretch of time found it confined. The Bonfire Resident perhaps

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  , it is a reinforcement of the way they see themselves. Certainly major ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  say the least. The reality is that the college application process is just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come ... three) of summer job hunt cycles, *accepting* negative decisions is easier

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a ... is one of the greatest issues of our day has led her to pioneer the Climate Project at MIT. The goal of this project is to figure out how to get

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006