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  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  much as things to be studied for they work, but rather as elements of a ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... backgrounds at MIT. And it was okay that I needed longer to adjust to Boston ... ’t have done coming from a small town. It took me time to realize this wasn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... deciding to let graduation happen without me and start a company based off of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... does Daily Table do all this? Well, a Harvard Business School case study

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... -Stokes equation, while the girl next to you does quantum physics and somebody else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor ... excruciating. I miss talking to my colleagues, and I’m a notorious waffler, often in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... reverting back to a comp sci major. But pretty much, whenever it comes to ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... took the name of the weekend much more seriously. There was a Bad Ideas ... first-floor hallway, to make a linear, multicolored, psychedelic display

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was ... can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  ’ve since been informed that that’s a misguided conclusion to make, and I like to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot ... of miles away from family and friends and not really in a place to make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... ...3...4", I realized that I wasn't really composed enough to hold a conversation ... 's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the ... little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more. This is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  . Last week, I spoke to a girl who enjoys being here so much that she might ... ’t have a voluntary represented on the panel. The advice voluntaries need to ... grounding, now. You know what you need to do. There’s a line I say at this

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014