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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  done, as it always does. But it's days like these when I feel I should

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  ... And then the committee does its work, however brutal. It's not pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  that language, so what does it mean when I dream up an experiment in the ... southern comfort feels.   What does self-care look like to you?  Bryan ... self-care does not have to be anything elaborate, it’s just prioritizing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  monogamous relationship, but where the couple does not expect exclusivity. They ... this might just be an opinion, I think that it does make people feel more ... whatever does, you will learn from it. This is maybe one of those parts of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  it a go. You do the animating, your friend does the script-writing and ... poor people? Does MIT hate poor people?… should we anonymously troll the ... type who does physics and is MIT ’17. He was never eligible to join NHS

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , just buy a ton of comfy blankets? And what happens if ten years into the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  into the same square. In 1844, Gerling furthermore showed that it does ... in more detail later. The Dehn invariant does not change when the ... solution—as does the system generated by the pearl lemma (translated so that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  Court does not announce when it will release its decisions in particular ... ” interchangeably, as the litigation does. The former is a general term describing a ... want to be clear that the bluntness of these reporting standards does not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  To..., ❤️ & ☮️, and Does Any Kid Still Do This Anymore? I passed ... meeting took a bit under two hours. Puzzle Club exec also does weekly ... puzzles? Not like, why do humans do puzzles. But more like, why does Mystery

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  but does not eliminate planned, long-form posts that require a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  slower, like it does in the movies. Those thirty minutes sitting alone felt

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

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  really well. Does it matter that I didn’t do that class this semester? No

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

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  taking time does not reflect a lack of intelligence, perseverance, or

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  how does it feel? and i said i couldn't explain it, i felt like i had

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  , does any of this really matter because life is absurd and we’re all just

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  did Joan Didion, why does anyone? Because we want to write about

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  Do you have trouble writing? Does it feel like a daunting, excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  nothing more than personally happy - just why anyone does anything, right

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015