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  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... 't plan anything to do, so after playing Crystalis for two hours, I decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or just want a starting point to jump from, here's infallible advice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... rendered it into a nifty yarn-based survey-tool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a ... passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... astrodynamics for the first time. I remember doing a 16.07 lab where we had to ... to fly in August 2021, with a handover date for final testing in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches

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

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

  

  heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... for lateness. I also had a 6.002 circuits due that Friday, which I ran ... to catch up on work became a weekend of shambling around grasping for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow ... made to generate a huge square wave (40 Volts). There's a part where you ... , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs

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

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

  

  now in a pretty different format than it has been, probably due to ... a Division of Humanities. The committee report called for it to be a ... they want to. There's also a concentration requirement for students not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall ... paying for a gym membership with your tuition, so you might as well take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  gets a letter inviting him to come for a tour of MIT. It's an exciting ... fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... , my auntie wanted me to take a nap. She said, “if you don’t go to sleep ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder ... baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a ... of your essays to do this for you, but it doesn’t hurt to do it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  freaking amazing y'all and I really couldn't ask for a better place to be ... distancing. Fingers-crossed for returning to a much healthier Cambridge soon ... carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted

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

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... who are first-generation to college, students from a variety of ... , they should be a viable candidate for admission to a highly selective

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that ... there was light! [annotation note="The generator only lasted for a day ... [/annotation] It is my lifetime goal to try a corndog For the first time in my life

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

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  are a lot more people who want to reach for that vision with me, because ... have so many opportunities. You can hand them off to your children. I’m a ... ’s response to Austin. Sofia Campos: “Reaching for our dreams of our

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014