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• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  acceptance rate is 8.2% overall. Now, I'm not the top kid in my school and I ... that everyone has an 8.2% chance of getting in? No! The 8.2% is the ... by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in ... "ENTERING 12" signs, which is hard to identify because, in the US, pixel fonts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  application is now live and ready for all your submissions. At some point in the ... made me realize that nothing is unusual either. There is not much to say ... ’s a dining room, the chairs are not meant to be sat in for longer than

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... into the laces but that'll wear off in time. MasteringPhysics.com is an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  my mind is so occupied most of the time that i can no longer focus on ... . this means nothing. i did, however, get to both play in the snow with my ... personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car ... new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  most important unsolved problem in the field. I want to close with a ... into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  the day after putting in 45k steps. This is the part where I say to ... October until the races in January which definitely sucked but it was much ... :( We both knocked out the half and wandered back to the hotel in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  is almost orthogonal to the previous discussion” Translation: “This is almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In ... trivial solution to the Pythagorean theorem a^2+b^2=c^2 is a = 0, b = 0, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  her to know how much I had earned from art commissions. “Is it more ... quite enough. By the point I was halfway through trying to woo the places I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in ... queries to make sure the data is rolled-up correctly. I don’t directly ... unwind.   To Ask or Not to Ask… That is the Question Well, not really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  is dedicated to the one song (out of over 100) in this entire concert ... quickly surf away in embarassment? Did you then look hesitantly to the left ... Doves Cry.. I'd heard this like a dozen times in the car driving up to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  table, some of the posters. it's also right next to the lounge, which is a ... players in the game, because i still struggle to win ascension 20 more than ... 't spend much time the previous day doing construction. i didn't know how to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... Sandler is most definitely not my favorite actor ever Cabin in the Woods ... and the pandemic and what we want to do in this big scary world. Other

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... went on to win the contest. I’m not jealous. Not at all. I think this is ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  without. What else? I woke up most days before the sun came up in order to ... Trader Joe's for the first time in my life, and grew to love their chicken ... classes, and for the most part, I was right. My favorite class right now is

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  : “This is the only time in your lives when your only real responsibility is ... included in one post. Instead, in a conclusion that is longer than the body ... . Goodbye for now, MIT. I smell freedom in the winter wind. With much

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... a lot in the previous year, and I feel much more grounded and clear ... second novel" is really the best way to foster this relationship. But I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  was actually the video that introduced me to fall out boy. neat. in ... nightcore and proceeded to have an edm/nightcore phase in the sixth grade. i ... person in the pit, holding my ground even when people tried to sneak past

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  I was on track to double-major in history; all it takes is one history ... they turn in to. Then the Major Declaration Form came out, due at the ... , not unkindly. “Don’t listen to me.” # The thing is, I was considering

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021