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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  dorms were either closed or being used by people in MIT's various summer ... -legs-on-the-floor, my sleeping body was suspended by four metal rods, each at the top ... constrained by volume, not weight. Eleven people could fit on a bed, but not

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the ... . INCAPABLE. DEPENDENT. Got a low score on a test that I knew I could’ve done ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  TINACBNIEAC by fans.']nothing is ever a coincidence.[/annotation] Okay, it ... be by an MIT student, and as much as possible get a different artist ... scheduling things. That adage about multiplying time estimates by π is true

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  lease. The Good vs The Bad How do you know if living off-campus would be ... surrounded by school, and other students who are constantly working. I don ... drowning, and letting myself live a life not entirely shrouded by looming

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  , East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni ... Campus (bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, Memorial Drive, Ames Street and ... balls would just bounce off of them), everything's held up. Cambridge

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... scored front row seats to the Indigo Girls at a venue 2 hours away. I didn ... afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  make time by not sleeping), and always pursued my passion. In college I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  freshman you should come by, even if you don’t live here yet, because you ... Mural Painting   Leave your own mark in Random Hall by painting murals ... insane one-shot tabletop roleplaying game based on the system written by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  phrase best voiced by a euphemism, someone walks past you saying, “That ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... marathon. Floating was a hilarious affair, by which I mean just plain awful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , MUMS, CiSRA, and SUMS were all written by Australians, earning them the ... written by a single person and printed on a sheet of paper, today's Hunts are written by dozens of people, with professional-level art

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

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  last, and I am learning bit by bit what all those upperclassmen meant ... honestly, didn’t sugarcoat my score. Talking to her, I felt totally respected ... from bio]. We’ve determined by now that I learned a fuck of a lot in chem

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  numbers mean?). piece of cake! hahaha - i see your 10 and raise it by 6! :D ... midnight movie release sponsored by the Class of 2011 - The Golden Compass ... " there by my parents, which I'm not sure counts or not, haha. I suppose I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  , wearables, and IoT, taught by none other than [annotation note ="Joe is ... ourselves with Arduino and C++ by incorporating a basic state machine. However, I was really daunted by just..the class as a whole and I really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  gave me a bookmark with a quote by Wernher von Braun: Research is What I ... score well on standard tests that measure IQ and Aptitude, then you too ... read Mindset by Carol Dweck (nearly 2 years after I was originally

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  of a D9 organization. He grew up surrounded by [annotation note ... commit to MIT.  Since Kenneth grew up surrounded by Black Greek culture ... lobster, and throw golf balls attached to some string at a horizontal piece

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  ) by all undergraduates"]girs [/annotation]done following the advice of ... , where undergrads help grad students with research or get supervised by ... ="alignnone" width="768"] one of the pictures generated by the tool![/caption] during

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  "teaches" you how to study, because techniques and tricks vary by person ... exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT ... actually covered by the professor him/herself. This means learning to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  , Nadya is now incredibly decorated and celebrated by many organizations ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... disingenuous claims about the magnitude of her success. To clarify, by magnitude

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT, 200 more seats were taken up by cameras! Sam Range '13 (my prefrosh ... hackers (score++). You'll want to skip ahead to about 27 minutes into this ... you by Livescribe And like that, it was all over. Obama left on the left

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  "]length[/annotation] and [annotation note="who is it used by, and where does it take you ... or crossing them, then assigning them a score based on nothing but my ... supported by cables jutting out from these towers"]cable-stayed bridge

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020