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  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a ... much because I have seen everything there is to MIT (by far impossible ... Harvard, or why you should not go to Caltech. The simple answer is just that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  [/annotation] It is my lifetime goal to try a corndog For the first time in my life ... effect of allowing us to reflect on the past—to soak it all in, to remember ... place in history as some of the first people with complete access to the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to ... my math courses: "Just the fact that most people in the class have ... agonizing over whether I could afford to buy orange juice. (The answer was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... are not in a restaurant where the owner wants you to buy an actual meal ... sounds like: living in a van, which is gutted and re-modeled on the inside

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... decision fatigue for a few reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that it's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  of what the people around you are doing, it is the most important to ... to MIT! :) ---- ps. This is an email that one of the most successful ... /No Record is your friend, and you will be able to cruise through the semester

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  flashbacks to her childhood. Similarly, in those flashbacks, Yon Rha is in the ... the most, and the advanced technique of listening to the earth is one ... a conclusion became. In the end, I decided to list all my favorite

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

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  that day was rain showers, and I didn’t want to run in the rain! We ... ; the terminus at Braintree is the southernmost station in the MBTA system ... together. CJ: So we made it to JFK/UMass. We crossed the platform to board

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature ... felt this magical to those of us in the greater blogger community. Maybe

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• 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…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... in order to break even you'd need to spend at least $10 in the dining ... department is not going to admit a student who, in their opinion, cannot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  , to his boat for a sailing trip. in the hours before we set sail, we ate ... head-to-head, and in this example, the boat and the wind were in opposite ... . "you have to adjust based on how the wind is blowing," said john. "and so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  pistol). They are mostly taught by Coach Mike Conti, who has served in the ... round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach ... prospective students. Here is what he said: Try to keep things in perspective

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices ... application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  want to spent my time, how much water I consume. This is but the start of ... in the mail, but now you have to send in your passport to the Swiss ... fail, so scramble to visit the nearest Bank of America to have it done in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  students. Most of us want to take part in the Hunt after it's written, and so ... 't want to write the Hunt. I think that sandbagging in the Mystery Hunt is ... media, putting the comparative in Comparative Media Studies. I hope to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  percent of the class in the chat! This makes sense to me; the easier the ... , the more helpful a group chat is in getting through the semester. III ... . Harvard sentiment In the 6.036 (Introduction to Machine Learning) group chat

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the fort’s rectangular footprint.  This method is effective in theory ... specifically buy longer pieces. The side length of each rectangular fort unit is ... assembly straight out of the pallet. In reality, while most 2x4s were

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

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

  

  feel like every day is the same in quarantine, and this was one way to ... one place to hide and one place to seek; your goal is to find the most ... is to be a free rider and not put in anything—bar the punishment, of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• 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 ... not fit in this blog so at the bottom of this section is a link to a ... who qualify for an ACT fee waiver (scroll to the bottom of this link to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  MIT sororities since most are majority white and Asian. In the middle is ... is incredibly valuable, AudreyRose wanted to take part in the more fun ... ’s easy to get stuck in the MIT bubble because everything is on campus, but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020