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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... 've been blessed. Can't remember the reagents for the reaction you have in ... " is unfavorable for a few reasons: 1) it's as cringe as it is cheesy,  2

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall. Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  recommendations. mcYunBaconBitz asked: "I signed up for MIT 2 other colleges, and a ... really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least for now, I’m not too worried about that inevitability. Some things have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and ... note="I wonder how that'll hold up with inflation"]$20, 20 years from now

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story ... sleep normally for several weeks afterwards, probably because of affection ... ’d agreed to break up when i’d asked him to, it would’ve been fine, and it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  frantically around the floor with David '08, aka DTemp, a photographer for the ... biggest suite on the floor, so it's a pretty central location for people to ... proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  2008 as official inventors for Hasbro with Hasbro picking up the tab. We ... comfortably in a bus designed for twice as many people as we had) and chatted ... trademarked name uses all capitals for TOY FAIR) is one of a few major toy

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within ... ?" I am! You can see the schedule for the entire MIT Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a ... even if i don’t end up becoming friends with the person telling the ... empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  instinct was Method 2, you'd also show a natural talent for parallel parking ... up until you're perfectly centered. (By the same reasoning, people who ... pairs. Or triplets. Or where n-tuplets, where n = n+1 for every time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  anyone who could come up with the best demonstration of chemical wit. My ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster. "What are you doing?! We have to study for our final!!" "QUIET. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  , it is hard for me to express how impressed and jealous I am. Growing up ... ended up designing my own, hands-on activities for the students. Since I ... , it probably wouldn't even qualify as a city. Where is it? Up in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  personal home for the past three years. Our tour guide, Maddie L. ‘26, is a ... ’s head over there and meet up with our next tour guide: Natalie B. ‘25 ... we’ve finished up touring houses on the Boston side, it’s time to cross

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  unfiltered thoughts. which may or may not be a good thing. what have i been up ... chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long ... week, and then staying up really late on thursday night and going to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  buildings were little toy models. I was sad, but I was also excited. Up until ... infinite. I was filled with boyish wonder, and I was ready for my grand ... week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  . We're trading pumpkin dances for turkeys and Christmas carols sung ... mid-semester work than coming up with an awesome costume, but such is ... Shaws. My suite upped its decoration game after one of our freshmen, Jimmy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  alike compete to think up and build innovative software and hardware projects over the span of 24 hours. Throughout the week leading up to Hack ... opportunities for artists, engineers, business people, and entrepreneurs alike to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place ... ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... ways, and if you end up at another school, who knows what values you will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012