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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale ... -long classes, to lots of students, in MIT's campus. The differences are when ... rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  to the cost of housing on campus. But, if you're smart, you can find ... people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community ... to mentally separate that part of my life from the rest. I [annotation

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... ’s charge to the graduates is one of the most inspiring speeches I’ve watched ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  access to Arab satellite television was cheap. Some of the channels weren ... botches. Back to Table of Contents The Planning Phase The nuance and ... to Zuko the importance of learning from other nations and shows him how

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  brilliance, contribute a few modest ideas of my own. I wanted to change the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story ... questions (What do you do for the pleasure of it? Which department or program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... surprise and a victory over the demons of laze. It came when all my socks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... electric with the thought of classes and schoolwork. You think you'll come ... few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of ... rest of the student life equation: how, thanks to MIT’s flagship

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... what I’m feeling is this quote from one of the lectures I went to during ... introducing me to some of the other people I knew who were staying in Next. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... approximate breakdown of the jobs I've applied to and interviews I've actually ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  were cut to the side length of the overall footprint, while the third was cut to the hypotenuse length. When all of those strings were held end to ... angle between them. We then flipped the triangle to mark the other side of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... with all of the different student groups and resources available to put

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

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. These parts are defined by roads. Everything to the west of Massachusetts Avenue is on west campus, everything to the east of Ames Street is on east

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was ... perpendicular to the plane of the bottle and pops off the top. Unfortunately I ... the two sides of a heart to be even is about as easy as herding cats

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023