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  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  to contribute to this field, and hence about what we should be majoring ... We are confused about what we want to do with our lives and thus what ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... used to keep every single email that came into my inbox out of frosh

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... Reif had dared to escape the horrors! Despite the fact that I’ve been ... excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  would calculate scores, but then added in a formula version of it to ... promise!"]Oops.[/annotation] We had to calculate the winners of the ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  options open, decide what you want to do later, and work in any STEM field ... figuring out how to turn measurements of the sun, local magnetic field, and ... to Earth’s magnetic field at any given point in orbit. This makes

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

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  companies fill up two gymnasiums and a track field with booths and you have to ... , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come ... Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... to see what I had forgotten, what shoelace was missing, what sock was hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  fabulous dancer. I can't sing, or dance. So, my contribution was to wave my ... center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... , I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  media field for 4 years. A PhD was relevant and helpful to those specific ... school admissions. Now, you do NOT need to be worrying about grad school as ... -you-were-looking-for-but-here-it-is-anyway take. Table o’ Contents
 The most important thing is to figure out

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to know the kinds of research people are doing in your field, and the ... novel contribution to the field. When you read conference papers, most of ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  [annotation note="We wanted to calculate if a penny dropped from a high point ... really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that ... understand the irony of that statement, since I am paid to share my life with

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  wrongly. Consequently, people, watch calculations pertaining weather! Coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  good enough answer to give justice to what I feel about MIT. Instead, I prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay. Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , a calculator, and my brain still trying to convince myself that there ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... -night dining hall food to survive thrive. [carousel image1="107365" image2

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

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  and I calculated what it'd take to build a raft to ride our couch down ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014