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

  

  is the top school in my district, and gives a lot of college credits ... , I made online friends. Sure, I’d spent much of the previous years chatting up the same people, but we never talked much outside of our

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

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s working. i am one of the co-directors for hssp, which is an educational ... your own. and while i know this is true, and i know the dozens of ... spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... and revolutionary one. The field of visual storytelling is really broad ... described^) is the stuff that the majority of MIT students do on a weekly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , cj and claire, the main thing you'll do is tacking. i'll handle the ... brunch at a packed dumpling place, as he explained the basics of sailing to ... along the length of the boat, and two for the sails. he took the pen he

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

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  the season on the Charles River this past Monday night. The view is of ... entrance to Killian Court is visible to the left of the Green Building. The ... My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . How much effort I’m putting in, the time of day, the last time I ate ... feeling of accomplishing work. (Do I like the work, or do I just like the ... days of concentrated effort. Sometimes there are weeks when everything is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  MIT and Legend of Korra. I replied, saying “lok is emblematic of the mit ... getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school ... ," says Kogan. "The cost of a car is the same, but the cost of the education

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  shine. The filament is made out of metal (these days, usually Tungsten ... can adjust the Duty Cycle, or what part of the time the square wave is ... 's so much resistance in the lamp. If the lamp is on, it goes through the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  acrylic paint and the bottom half is melted crayons. Grant F. ‘16 One of ... is much more efficient than class AB, and the feedback control corrects ... -U-Haul-box collection of stuff (why). The left window is taped over because it doesn’t close

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  . When the former is not possible because of circumstances outside of your ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  isn't fiction: this is Earthrise, a view of the Earth rising from the ...  improbably large battle station, the X Wing is the type of small star fighter used by ... Brianna C. ‘11. The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy is one of my favorite series and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  good along the way.  However, much of the time, students fail to connect ... New York Times about the college admissions process, it is hard for me to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  think of it as a stepping stone. 18. Take risks. 50. This is the ... since.   49. Enjoy every second of the next four years. It is ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... social center of student life. No need is more urgently felt amongst the ... character of the humidification, depending as it does so much upon the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is ... each one of these admissions offices, and not one of them is MIT. On the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ...I like studying the "philosophy" of science, not so much the nitty ... largely because MIT is so difficult. At the end of the day, you will feel ... , that's saying a lot. This is one of the best things about being a premed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  the shadow of their data. This is why I hate "chance" threads so much ... , and that problem is this: sometimes, you don't have all of the data ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of

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

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has ... leader, of— Focus. This time, let's tell a smaller story. It is the end

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  began what is easily the most demanding of days I have lived through. What ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... arrangement from administration. One of the many things they’ve set up is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  anything about fire? The thing is just hanging off of a building. It's ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016