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  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... '16 Akamai, the content delivery network that handles 30% of the ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of

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

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  belong. At the same time I’m miserable, sometimes. IHTFP is the middle of ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

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

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... forward to right now is the Whirlwind of Metamorphosis book launch. It ... , pushing forward, and in the absence of motion, it was simply falling. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  is split into two halves: "Chemistry of the Non-metallic Elements" and ... I am when it comes to history, is that 1865 is towards the end of the ... article is a good overview of the history of women in MIT. This catalog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  happiness is because it seems obvious that the end goal of human actions ought ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the ... .e. the most excellent form of the human function. Aristotle's belief is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to ... : Organic Chemistry Tutor Description: So the name of this channel is ... who qualify for an ACT fee waiver (scroll to the bottom of this link to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions ... information I left out of the story so far is what I actually do at my job. On ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible ... disappointed with the situation and myself. This class was taking so much of my ... . Comparison is the thief of joy, after all. I fail. A lot. I have little or big

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  abstractly is very different from having already pondered the details of what ... . The only regret I have is not getting the help I needed sooner. One of ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
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  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  't Start the Fire", to East Campus's modern mascot (as of 2003), which is ... of the Boston newspaper reporters." Nothing that happens here is ... . The Chancellor is in charge of all things student at MIT, and works

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... loop of the code for the ESP32. If there is no input query, the server ... the LCD is OFF (filled color of your choosing), the appropriately spaced

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... institution) is hard. There’s the first problem of figuring out exactly how I ... to compare to, but such is the nature of life. Two examples (and these

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... you spent the past few years of your life is "good enough" or whether ... is a couplet that i'm proud of: "We’re at a party that’s not the right

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  : It's About the Match College is about much more than books and classes ... can fall into the trap of thinking that your success is due solely to a ... is on remembering the best of who I’ve been and bringing my favorite

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  symbols in the house were squids and [annotation note="Purple is one of Tau ... 't expecting much aside from a few pots of hot water with some tea bags from the ... programs for high school students). This is the worst option, in my opinion

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... much of what happens in life is outside of our control. You schedule

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  sure to note which is which. We'll continue the convention of "now ... wrote in the 1984 Report, "the character of MIT’s student body is dictated ... "] from the tech[/caption] My guess is that this was something of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  the actual country-continent relationship, there is a ton of overlap in ... Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018