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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is ... it is[/caption] The reason that Splash teacher recruitment had to ... , or sick. Adding -ulo turns it to a person, malsanulo, someone who is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  , like it has of mine. And it is wonderful to have a nutritional oasis in ... moved out; the Trader Joe's, which has its own devoted cult, is a bit ... that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  over the years and I figured it was time to share. I believe this is the ... due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a ... to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  hard as I know it is, try not to obsess over your pending decision. Do ... . You’ve found something you love. You’ve nerded out on it. You want to keep doing it for the next four years. In fact, you want to keep doing it

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  buy very few of them. It’s difficult to cut the side profile accurately ... stretched the length was actually longer than what we measured it to be. We ... measurements longer down the line, and it caused our overall footprint to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  paper, I was the [annotation note="Usually the last author is given to the ... is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work ... until the wee hours of the morning to obtain last minute results. It was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  evening you don’t have enough energy to do anything anymore. But this is ... it,” he said. I used to feel that way about my social life, sometimes ... to actively exclude me, but sometimes it feels like that anyway. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... to me. It is the most bitter pill to swallow, and also the most ... decided to throw it up here mostly unedited (meaning, excuse all the typos

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of this list, which is actually different from year to year - if you ... one of the good things about going to med school is that we don't have ... of IHTFP - It's Hard To Fondle Penguins. XD 74. Walk across the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  is.) What would it mean to the omniscient observer to stand still? Granted, it could mean that there is literally nothing acting on you to go ... difficult concepts and brutal tests. It represented the final hurdle to being

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  [/annotation] It is my lifetime goal to try a corndog For the first time in my life ... , even down to the blogs now, is shaped by these experiences. Even when it ... As we say goodbye to the decade, it’s hard not to get sentimental

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a great dilemma: be yourself or create yourself - just which one is it? I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... hearing that MIT is what it is because of the people who go here, but it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  simply wasn’t enough time to come to terms with it.  It was hard. All of it. From long phone calls with airlines to making sure everyone in our ... , it was really really hard. But, when it was time to leave campus there

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll probably have to share during the day when it's busy Ida Green Room (9th ... ="87002" /] again, first pic credit goes to Joonho Pros the cafeteria is right

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... . Wouldn't it have been safer to submit the overly-edited essay? I gave MIT

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  thought it was wonderful, and would often repeat the phrase to myself, “we ... are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... was a lovely phrase, and would often repeat it to myself, saying “we are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  ’ll put it off.”) [annotation note="This one is interesting to deal with ... profile. It took more energy than I would have liked to submit the three ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... 've come to call my home? Is it Mountain View, the city I'm living in for the ... graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023