Search

Search Results

• 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?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  that opened nearby. When I got to Harvard, I turned around and started ... the screen and got back to work. -- TWO WEEKS AGO -- I had received an ... the premises quickly, chuckling lightly to ourselves, and my voice was

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

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and went out to the deck to get churros instead. So much to say, I was ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... clever people who create clever and interesting puzzles, so I was very

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... could cry, then I would much rather them leave me alone and allow me to ... was to come, and it had, until now. I thought that through my fasting I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , 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 ... . Now what? At this point, your most likely option is to go back and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  requirement to graduate, but, you know, it is much easier to sit at home and eat ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... improbably old. According to science (and by science I am obviously referring

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good ... welcoming "How are you doing today sir?" to his deeper and brotherly "wassgood ... forget as we have to learn words like acrimony, vociferous, and herculean

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... to sit down and recap: August holds sad memories, saying goodbye, and ... coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and ... environment and it has been immensely beneficial for me to understand the ‘other

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

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

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  reasons--farmers don’t have much tax to give, and infrastructure is ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  performed here once! And listened to many amazing performers. I still remember ... Ave from across Lobby 7: always reminded me that wow, I go to MIT. And ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... expectations about snowboarding, and I have the bruises to prove it. My left arm ... prevails when it comes to nerds and their athletic ability: they have none

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fundraisers and creating petitions to re-emphasize the need for MIT to implement ... many Black women – women who have had to overcome many intellectual and ... studying. I think this holds truth for me; to maximize my exposure and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... adapts to enhance spatial mapping)? And could this potentially have ... satisfying and empirically-supported explanation as to “what gives” was not

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  or another, and so I rolled the cart along, once again sad to be moving ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so much static I hear whenever I ask myself this question, pounding and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... and I by heavy machinery and segfaults. (Although we try our best to ... makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close ... fourth floor. We have a beautiful view, and three large windows to watch it ... to MIT, more or less equidistant from Central, Harvard, and Inman

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

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and ... taught at much greater depth and breadth. We learnt about the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  photoshopped brochures. And they had a swimming pool! I stood close to the edge ... tried to. Splashed. Swung my arms. Nothing. Nothing. And then, someone was ... the water and to socialize. I asked if I could socialize with the class

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015