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  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact ... "the spellbinding 1400." Scores are one tool we use to help us in ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  for my day job, I’m trying to combine my experience in biological ... here everything that was going on in my life for a couple years ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for ... “single story”, a single perspective on an issue. For China, the frame is ... warehouses for two weeks (wherein I drove a Toyota Forerunner in San Francisco

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it ... . Failure is inherent in risk, and risk is necessary for success. Applying to ... know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... --mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I ... ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  one goal. In Book 1, he chose to continue searching for Iroh when he saw ... Iroh’s tea shop in Ba Sing Se. For a moment, he pursues Appa and thus the ... food coloring in the whipped cream for her waterbending, though I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... ’d called home for so long. The thought remained in the back of my head until ... parents will cheer for me in my Cambridge apartment, and my life will move

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  received a key that I initially assumed was for my room in the visiting ... ’s worth struggling through, bearing in mind that it’s normal for it to be ... ’re stuck and when it’s time to ask for help. My advisor was hands-off in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  instructed in MIT for the next few catalogs, but it's notable that it appears ... numeral for a long while. The numbers in this catalog are pretty much today ... entrance exam is required for admission. The exams are held in Boston, of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  consensus was, in the best-case, five years. The "upper limit" for how long it ... dinner. I've never done anything in exchange for all their free food, and I ... make up for a lack of maintainers. This is where SIPB comes in. As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  remained at MIT for another year as an Assistant Instructor in Civil ... MIT accepted its first international student in 1866, only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... know whether you're in. Right now. But that's not good for you, let ... these words in an abstract for one of his papers: "When a man sits with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  . It also was scheduled to be taken offline in June 2020 for renovations ... opt to cook for themselves and the drop off in who uses meal plans is so ... to maintain even while we're not living in BC; for example, my floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  looking for an edge in the admissions process, and the authentic applicants ... great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  pressure, in front of a large audience – a recipe for success! I'm planning ... little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  't write about the drunken wildness parties in the blogs for a few reasons ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that ... .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  first time in my life, I’ve needed to schedule time for myself. I’ve set ... . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... prefrosh temped on the same floor he was living in. Malingap is the feeling

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  . Ask anyone who's lived in the Philippines for several years; they ... other hand, after having lived in Cambridge for two years, the only named ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021