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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... tablet to see each color on its own. We can see that blue is a staple ... (if you’re on a tablet) to see each color on its own. There is a sad

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  things to change. I think it is this spirit of continual improvement ... entered (to my knowledge it is locked) where there are lots of miniature ... fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions

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

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  -ish October, each District emails or calls its Finalists to let us know that we ... parts of the process - because it forced me to think critically about my ... Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika --- My name is Stephanie, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to ... , January 26 It is spring already, it is decided, the ground is damp & springy and the air smells like water and moss. It’s January so this is

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... time? I could never. But since this is my senior year, I decided to suck ... have been able to do the long multiplication in my head.) It turned

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very ... such a small thing to notice, but it triggered a cascade of thoughts in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  made to build more undergraduate housing (that is, East Campus), it was ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in ... the hall but is secondary information to saying that you live on, say

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

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany ... Killian, it started to sink in that we were really graduating and I started ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... publish their correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the ... capital to expand its underdeveloped social life. Several visionary ... , the Walker Memorial Building. Pritchett writes: [Walker] as it is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... be very proud of. But it's not something I'm going to bust out my

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

  halloween down the infinite

  

  with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... corridor. it's actually not that long but everyone usually goes through it to get to classes and things happen along the corridor! which is why i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural ... research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for ... (although I'm preparing at the moment to defend my qualifying exam, which is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it’s ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... than it would have been otherwise. This is the way I would

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

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a ... . It's a unique opportunity to put our engineering skills to the test and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  will need to hear it more than others. My name is Chel. I left MIT ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... only way to describe us is “formerly returned students.” This year, there

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It ... is the best Camille that she can be and I am proud to be Camille's mom ... it to [annotation note="My mother and I have an inside

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• 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.

  

  of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be ... polygon is incident to exactly one other polygon. It is possible to travel ... others without leaving the interior of the polyhedron. It is possible to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... start the new year.  But I also want to note that while it might be ... the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025