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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his ... , basically, like The Game. You don't want to think about it...but you do. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so ... I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be ... this year), decided that it would be fun to put a wooden rail between two ... guy to her left is either Andrew C. '08 (Senator from New House), or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no plans except to have as much fun as possible. Having an empty calendar

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  taking rocks and training them to add and remember numbers. Wow! Rocks usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we ... 's even cooler than that? Training rocks… that STICK TOGETHER… to do those

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... choreography videos for K-Pop songs were available on YouTube for me to learn, so ... -taught dancers I've met throughout my life, seems to be a pretty common experience

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... chance to see it) The MIT International Science & Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably ... wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center ... ." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... two towns are great if you want to relax, and Somerville especially can ... arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to ... wonderfully convenient, allowing me to cook often enough to enjoy it and not so ... , since you have to cook for around 20-30 people, and not all recipes are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day ... and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall ... Math, and classes you might not expect, such as How to Plan and Execute

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine. Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them ... 'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before ... ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... computer, I enjoyed fixing it and continued to mess around with it. I went to a vocational high school to study information technology. There I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  answers to your recent questions ... to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... for math/science?" You're welcome to submit supplemental recs

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  there to be a method to the madness: maybe [annotation note ... sense, I do have a task-management strategy, but to me it feels more like ... my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  this woman holding up three large medals and thought to myself "I want ... 's journey from no running to Boston Marathon convinced me that I could train ... .  "Perfect!" I thought to myself, "I did MIT, I can do this! Besides, I get 6

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... dates. We'll take the top bidders out to see movies or to Toscanini ... to my 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) professor Kimberly Berkowski, 9

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007