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  things that are golden a zine

  

  . - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  volume of the comics The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was painted by ...  improbably large battle station, the X Wing is the type of small star fighter used by ... 18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be ... post will be a way for you to start processing all of those thoughts, a ... applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  free stuff culture. Offices or people who are getting rid of things will ... we all know what happened in March 😬 So all of that beautiful wood sat ... the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 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.

  

  to a plane, bounded by any number of straight, uncurved lines, the ... equidecomposable? Are they equicomplementable? By the end of the nineteenth century ... tetrahedron is ⅓ the area of the base multiplied by the height; as described by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... . There’s a lot of work. There are times when you are happy, and then there ... like. I cried. I ate an entire box of mandarin oranges. I arranged the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  . And it's still true of everyone who wants to get in to MIT. And I ... , albeit reasonable expectations of its applicants. Chris Peterson put it ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  on this. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - This is one of those books ... kind of an asshole, I try to live by his philosophy of adhering strictly ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz “It's never the changes we want

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  work for the sole purpose of being liked by others feels ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence ... , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  Some Notes, because I’m myself:  Title is loosely based off of the ... because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... younger, which will be the goal of my blogs! Anyway, I’ll introduce myself

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  few more of my favorite things from both places, split by 500 miles ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY, and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  departments. 2. By centering the Field of Economics, this display further ... worthy of celebration. 3. By centering the Nobel Prize in Economics, this ... message by welcoming others to create a space that celebrates all of SHASS

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the probability of B given A, multiplied by the overall probability of A and divided by the overall probability of B. In our case, armed with ... wear purple underwear multiplied by the probability of living in that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  judged by the tightness of our group (the greatest distance between any two ... slightly embarrassed cough. —The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  this: This hat has been worn by many generations of French House ... Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  deal out of pi day to lessen the inevitable pain by making me watch a ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former students' MIT acceptance moments, prompted by a pre-Pi Day email thread

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  days of my junior year studying for and taking exams. By the time I had ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022