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

  

  changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... the in-ear ones, and I usually grab them when I’m going to be sitting ... on the couch or laying in bed. Or in cases where a laptop is just too

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... -heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and ... decisions that can be instrumental in the steps to what you're doing with your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  most popular floors in Burton-Conner floor rush (which is similar to dorm ... in Maine with the Burton 3rd Bombers, who were so much fun to party ... confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... hypothesis as the best, and sometimes only, route to understanding most things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  the whale is one of my favorite characters. Here is its short part in ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... . Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia, Tubul, Great T

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... much work I had. Hearing the phrase "I'm six-one" began to mean

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... so much work at once. The first comment I hear from my friends in my ... aspirations that led me here. The real value of search algorithms is not in

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

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1504"] I intend to set the record for "most complicated graph in an ... 2021 to now: CJ Q. '23. CJ is, well, me. I'm currently living in the room ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  senior year was easier than the first, my activity was much higher in the ... is to stay indoors nearly all the time; how lonely it is to barely see ... my priority, and I'm much happier now. MIT is confusing in many more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... . And then three of my very best friends in the world decided to leave MIT. (The retention rate at MIT is something like 97%, in case you were

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

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  being abroad is the milieu of people you meet and get to know. Most of my ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  when the grade in question is as low or lower than mine. Listen to me very carefully: THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN THE SAT. And thank God. 7 ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... from you too - in fact, that's part of the reason they chose to be ... college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• 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.

  

  .) 9:53 AM: Back to pset. mCPBA is the most commonly used peroxyacid to ... wants to work on the problem set. Hike over to Next House (ex-home that is ... . 9:07 PM: Javi pulls everyone in the hall into his room to watch his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• 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

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021