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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  action on the issues that are important to us. We all need to step up for ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the five videos (in reverse chronological order) and written some notes and

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

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  really packed and then yesterday I literally just did homework in bed for ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• 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.

  

  stood in front of the bathroom mirror similing to myself for 20 seconds in ... growth for me, and a big part of my goal in becoming a math major. My ... a translator between fields, to be an avenue for the ideas, tools, and

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

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

  

  "]MITHIC[/annotation], which is a platform for collaboration between the SHASS and departments in ... in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint ... friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  really developed a good set of tools for what to do when those failed. This ... that person for you in some small capacity over the Internet. I was able ... 'll reproduce the post here: I'm a senior in high school this year, and will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... lists. The app asks students for their basic information: test scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  Previously: Boomeranging. Content warnings for detailed discussion ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was like for me to go on medical leave for mental health reasons. I’ve been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  most other places. In fact, I'm wearing the 2014 Rush shirt for my dorm ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in ... best home for them. The more outgoing hacker-types got involved in the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  .48/24.08: Philosophical Issues in Brain Science 9.49: Neural Circuits for Cognition 9 ... considered majoring in (sorry courses 15 and 22). Congrats for making it to the ... registration opens very late. For example, pre-registration for Fall 2019 opened

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in ... of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... I go. Overview In Searching for legitimacy, we look at compare the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified for MIT?" My mind went blank. Qualified? What a strange word. I thought

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international ... "][/annotation] open for the summer. The food there was, in my opinion, unsatisfactory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  bicycle has several benefits, especially in a city like Boston. For one ... , for that's when I break out my bicycle. an actual photo of me with my bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Pandora has queued up for us, sipping homemade sweet tea and tossing ideas ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... --the things governments do, in exchange for creating infrastructure. Clearly, in

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... makes skype calls much nicer, it’s good for narrating what’s going on in a ... spaghetti in my bag. Notebook - For big notes. USB Battery Pack

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21 ... activities:  [annotation note="a club that shows films in a lecture hall for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  sorts of academic policies and issues at MIT: copyrights for MIT Theses ... discussed these issues for hours on end, trying to come up with some unified ... restriction was good for everyone, in part because it reinforces the idea that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021