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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... from the State House Dome transferred some night to the big dome of ... great copy of the photo, but here's what did come out: (Click to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a ... , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use different-sized squares to represent the brightness of each pixel, with large

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• 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 ... where your time goes. -- To return to the question of "“be yourself or ... ” in any way except that now, “Chloe” seems to be a marker of all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  traveling to all these places though, is the company of all my wonderful ... to the new environment weren’t easy! I also received tons of emails of ... amazing new friends! Thanks to CME, I also realize the different aspects of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  water, with the rational side of me giving way to trepidation. The bad ... best results. To that end, the last day of my swimming class ended with ... for dear life to the pool's edge, but the inviting depth of the water

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  business hours access to the shop, but we needed the help of Mike Skuhersky ... getting ready to release the video was probably one of the most strenuous ... --is the programmer you think of a Muslim woman? I happen to know quite a few

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... of them at once from the baggage-claim room to outside the airport ... to Random, and wished me the best of luck at MIT. The world needs more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  exception of one or two family trips to Las Vegas. So, when I went to the east ... like I need to figure things out on my own. Most of the time in ...  worked-- even the supposedly "simple" things. I had no clue how to even board a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... , the dark grid of windows a stark contrast to the talk and laughter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  gift of puzzles, I think about what it means to contribute to the ... graduated in 1983, the task of writing the next Hunt was passed to its winner ... ."]plot points,[/annotation] the 2003 Hunt was the first to have many pages of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... table trying to cut sideways. Therefore for the safety of the wall, the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is ... " questions that used to be at the end of your math textbook in every section ... to remember the Athena cluster combinations. Find your own best view of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How ... . Student journalists and bloggers like Lydia are working to make us more aware of the ... The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself ... the pros and cons of each option carefully. Ask everyone about it ... . Go on walks alone. Go on walks in the middle of the night. Go on walks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they ... allow them to be matched to a pre-med advisor. Over the course of this ... applicants. To give you an idea of what these presentations are like: the most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the ... of one or more of the people in this photo: Why those people

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to ... fifth floors of the east building and used the 12 ovens to parallelize the ... enough cookies for every member of the MIT community to have one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... : patronus", and you need to find and beat a certain number of these to do the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... got to watch every cultural stereotype of the city come to life. Yes ... warm. To the left of me, a small bickering dialogue between a scowling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014