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• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five Below is the greatest store ever.) I kept forgetting to bring it to his ... hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  commute there is a thirty-minute walk. It feels impossible to reliably ... that I get to expense things, so it doesn't feel like I'm buying things with my own money. On the other, it kind of still is buying things with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  superconducting electronics, where it’s often more convenient to describe circuits ... everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a non-mathematician, I think it’s hard to define duality succinctly yet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to ... sweating. It's also pretty sad to think about all the effort you're expending ... regardless, moving is a perennial part of my back-to-school experience, so this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  something to do with my flight scheduling. Anyway, as I see it, I've got ... guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on ... the whole ordeal was the 25 hour odyssey it took to get from my hotel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  it is going to be Physics or something like Mathematical Sociology. On ... share? Summer, it's warm, its nice, embrace it. This is a great time to ... resistivity when pressure is applied to them, our hope is to be able to use that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  things outside the bubble, I'm increasingly feeling like it's also easy to ... second just reminded me how it's never too late to be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of fearing "falling behind" is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  and Hand," MIT is very big on hands-on projects. To facilitate this ... keeping track at home). Pappalardo is home to a wide range of Course 2 ... the class are required to create a website about it- you can check out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... it back to the my office and found that the source of the traffic was ... man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , you may not realize how weird it is for upperclassmen to want to date ... -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... the reasoning behind it is crucial. as Nisha mentioned in her blog

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it ... December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too ... true, but also if I leave my mind to its own devices, I often descend

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New ... threat to America?" I mean, once you hear my question it's kind of a judge ... , my floor is amazing, so one day when I was not home they decided to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Eva: I'm not linking this because it's private but this is a Google ... controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1 Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... convenient to double-major than for two unrelated fields, but that doesn't mean

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  knowing MIT Medical is there. My friends were sweet enough to bring me extra Gatorade and soup and other fairly tame foods, but when it came to pumping my ... of other stuff - which is kind of convenient since there's a pharmacy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  Hockfield: Other attendees (according to my handy RSVP list; it was too ... is, of course, chocolate. Lots of it. Including a yummy chocolate ... festivities. All that chocolate has given me great energy to continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  pertinent to what was going on in my mind: is it right to feel like any less ... out ahead, depending on whatever was most convenient. It was something ... ?) getting better grades than you? It's enough to make you feel like maybe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  I'm forgetful when it comes to packing. Thanksgiving break, I forgot ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a ... , a secret base, an HQ. Personalize it and make it unique to you. Also

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  perfection. If you think about it, the CPU inside your computer is basically ... post, it is almost certainly powered by one of the following three ... could only shift away from wasteful incandescent light bulbs to energy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  : Summit Ruth: The first half means "to aggregate" and the second half is ... running the realization that it's way too cold to be outside wearing only ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006