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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  grades and outgrew the small staircases, my place in the hierarchy of smart ... moment I joined the MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group to see everyone ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... attendance sheets every day of the year generally got them to knowing about how ... to get to know everyone who falls out of bed and into 10-250. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  corresponding to some color). Using these color-number pairs and the colors of the xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the ... doing that, I just sat there staring at the slips of paper and trying to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  of arbitrary, because the math is difficult and not intuitive to me. So ... brain turned to mush in the classroom, and math was an hour of reading ... to try, where I could get A’s learning most if not all of the content

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  promise!"]Oops.[/annotation] We had to calculate the winners of the ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  waking up to the smell of food from surrounding restaurants that always ... . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... already have cats of the feline variety). Learn to Swing Dance! No partner

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... something for one of the questions. So we decided to put his reply speed to ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  other form of transportation. The route to MIT from where I live in the ... will at least change the way you think of bikes. "In order to become ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... bi—I was closest to the last option. This realization was kind of ... lot of my friends also came out to me. By the time I graduated high

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... variants - and countless others - are all just versions of the same question

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  appeal to the priorities of different groups (such as students vs. parents ... involvement to the firehose of opportunities at MIT, I feel like I'm always ... 'm excited to see where these changes take us. The frontiers of a contemporary

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... moment, let the impact of the decision hit you, and do whatever you need to ... ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  : Historical context: notes on MIT's history in general, changes to the format of ... were free lecture series open to "persons of either sex". The only ... course. This was in proportion to the school's 72 students, around half of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  of the Student Center! Several people, including myself dash out to ... little bit of face, part of the reason it took so long to edit it – aside ... progress of the news, to which I note the decreased efficiency of the office

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  naturally attach these terms to the real and painful struggles of homelessness ... disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude ... to realize the irresponsibility of this decision, but I digress. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  ’s the next rung to climb, or because they tie their sense of self-worth to ... of the burnt-out grad students I knew didn’t seem to have too strong of ... to keep the fire burning when it’s 3 am and you’re pipetting instead of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week ... really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about, I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of ... the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  wrongly. Consequently, people, watch calculations pertaining weather! Coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to ... number of different coding projects for students to get exposure to the ... , but also how to approach the structure of the AP tests themselves

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