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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of ... Movie (1992) 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 4. The Social Beaver (1956) 5 ... : 5% of undergraduates were women: In the video, a group of women

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1][2][3][4][5 ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... coursework enjoyable. Either way, I think things will be okay. 5. My MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  suggest. All this left me with 5 minutes time in evening to patch up things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  before my 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) problem set (pset) was due, and it ... half of it done before 5.13 recitation. 9:40 AM: Just remembered ... ; in other words, easily portable food.) 12:05 PM: 5.13 recitation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  chance to see her again after the end of 5.12: Organic Chemistry. So, in ... Yes, we sent her this video, innocuously titled "5.12" at the time, but ... of 5.12 for Spring 2004, which hangs on my door to this day. Most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  problematic fake science Myers-Briggs test (read more about that here). Big 5: The much-less-famous yet more credible Big 5 test. Enneagram: This thing ... hufflepuffs have a slight edge over ravenclaws! Not included are Big 5 and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  ’ Theorem, which I think, based on my 5.59 years of experience, is the very ... .11%)(10.49%) + (5.41%)(2.84%) + (18.18%)(9.70%) = 5.64% We can therefore say, if you ... (Simmons)  =  (11.11%)(10.49%)  =  20.67% Pr(purple) (5.64%) We can similarly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... your say, your body will silence 1 alarm, or 5 alarms. 10 if you really ... . 5 classes on your 1st semester, the hardest ones there are, will yield

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... of a committee table we had hauled into his office.) It was nearing 5PM

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  [carousel image1="86759" image2="86780" image3="86764" image4="86727" image5 ... ="86654" image5="86653" image6="86652" image7="86651" image8="86658" /] there are ... ="86622" image2="86621" image3="86620" image4="86619" image5="86618" /] Pros

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  had a 2.5’ x 3.5’ whiteboard that served as a message board—something to ... at 11:59PM on April 5 (Friday). FAQ: What is this? Next Forum Games ... games. I ended up running 5 more of these games, including “Hide and Seek

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

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... AM, a pset due at noon, and a lab due at 5 PM. You haven’t started

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  -random order. ____________________________________________ Day 5: Give MIT ... switch to Day 5 immediately. I care about the academic work I’ve done at ... specifically to blog about them, and that’s been one of my top 5 blogger perks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  right?? FROSH: what hall do you live on? ME: 5th west FROSH: oh i don't know anything about 5w ME: we have a lot of cats * * * ME: hey do you ... 're really hardcore ME: course 5 is chemistry ME: course 6-- FROSH: oh yeah

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  for the animals.The pasture area accommodates 20 billion chickens, 1.5 ... of beef in return. The average US consumer today requires more than 2.5 ... could use up to 0.5 acres less of land per person each year, freeing up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  mentally equipped for about 4.5 classes a semester so I've been sticking to ... badass than a forge"]3.095: Introduction to Metalsmithing[/annotation] 3.985/5 ... Mass Culture Course 5 5.08/7.08: Biological Chemistry II 5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  below the MIT Accepted Mean (3.71 vs. 3.73 - adjusted from MIT's 5 point scale to 4 point...the 5 point scale is rather silly because as long as ... strengths vs. weaknesses ;) I applied to 23 schools, and received 5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  my parents or friends. Things like "I just got back from my 5 ... equal to the height of Oliver Smoot ’62 (5 feet 7 inches), whose body was ... Coursework 3.091 - Solid-State Chemistry ("three oh nine fun") 5.11x

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008