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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... contains itself, which would have caused mild distress to Bertrand Russell. 3 ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  a dozen people. Their brains probably went "NOOOO! Snively's going to ... ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive ... 'm going to be honest. BUT, I'm also going to try really hard to not make

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... about what computers to bring to campus, and some articles around the ... , what does MIT recommend? If you go to MIT's page of Recommended Laptops

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... to discuss freshman grading. The background Hopefully you know about ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims ... audience. But most of the time, he stuck to the topic, which thoroughly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to put those new skills to work just last night, when I helped turn (turn= verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  read it. Every so often, though, I follow Ben's link to his CC comments, just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... these tangents was about AP classes and the pressure to take them. I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this ... "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... was appropriate to put on the mit admissions blog; feel free to contact me privately if you want to read the longer version though! 1

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and finally got the opportunity to connect with the team when my neighbor, Tho T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  my friends. We chose Hawai'i because it was close to my family and my ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... 'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  the morning after staying up until 1am (skull emoji – selena) to sort ... supporting them to build projects in 9 hours"]BLUEPRINT 2025 [/annotation] IS ... i've asked some of my lovely team members to give updates and let you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please ... lot of time eating brunch in Next dining, and proceed to mess around in some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most ... , my host grandfather passed away, and two weeks ago, my cat was put to ... I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be something I looked forward to every week and I seemed to be teeming with ideas ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  I was going to name this post "Things I enjoyed reading this year ... Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully ... after they happened to try to remember if we said everything we wanted to ... /not sleep deprived we were to run the 10-minute-walk to our bus stop to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017