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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  /herself/itself laying down in vastness of debris, accumulated waste. How does the ... the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the ... additions or deletions in physical traits or behaviors over the course of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ; most people believe it’s a good idea to respect the authority of your ... My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... you apply to college, but that filtered projection of an imperfect

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... , which have a list of each of the teams. Not only can you read all the ... submitting ridiculous dance videos? Well, one of the puzzles in this hunt was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc ... watched this documentary about the uprise of female faculty at MIT, and it

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... bottom left fuse does not have a tab, it has a spring. It turns out the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• 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…

  

  students who qualify for the SAT waivers, which can be used at good number of ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  turtle not be part of the choir? Creative goods Maybe the solution to the ... . I guess none of these directly address the issue of a puzzle getting ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  more “photo dump” albums in the works. It’s a good type of post for days ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good ... give him the hard red “Bank of America” card in my wallet that replaced ... whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  want to be clear that the bluntness of these reporting standards does not ... the origins of good ideas, to generating better solutions to novel ... As we conclude our work with the Class of 2027, and turn our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... piles of dirty laundry, p-sets, paper, scarves, and pencils. The drawers

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  it's open to the whole (of age) MIT community, this is not a good place ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from ... reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the

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

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama address is AWESOME! Let's see, the guy in front of me helped design ... my smartpen*. You see, the plan was to make a pencast of the address ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... difficult for those who may not even realize the immense potential of ... these opportunities, there are so many things that can limit the use of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the common assumptions of what an MIT student is like does not describe ... antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this ... across the world and fights against the stigma of menstruation and period

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... - but it does mean taking out of your life the things that aren't working ... , you've all heard plenty of life updates and reflections on the MIT (and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . I do it because I like the idea of being someone who does that. I like ... , not because of the presentation. And now I have good lectures, and I ... I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021