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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  the States was prefixed by living with my aunt and her family in ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... midterms--but ended up scoring well below average, a somewhat crushing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  you guys probably don't care. (Thanks.) Inspired by my own 50 Things, I ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... credit. ;-) The original blogs were inspired in part by the experience of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  tempting, trying to overload yourself by doing ALL of these things may not be ... .mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available ... tests that are organized by units and can help you self-learn almost any

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  score. MIT students are three-dimensional, are good people in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  " by trying to use all of these advanced vocabulary in their essays. Not ... can't be "forced out" by hours of sitting in front of Microsoft Word ... mundane test scores, GPA, and lists of activities. Why not capitalize on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Summer Studies Program. It then became the High School Studies Program by ... felt terrified by the idea. I was scared. "I think something I have to ... think about delegation. Directing didn't mean doing everything by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... EC Gothic, authored by East Campus, the residents and the mailing list ... . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  the first dorms in 1916, followed by further dorm expansions in the 1920 ... first hackers. As eloquently described by the Story Jack in MIT ... social side. Pritchett saw clearly that by having communal spaces and co

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  not think that I was a good enough candidate for MIT - my SAT scores

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  scores you got. All you can do is put your best foot forward and hope for

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  (very long) post is organized by catalog year. Within each year, the ... using the terms “now” and “today”; usually “now” means “by the time this ... "Chemistry of the Metals". They are as described by their title: literally the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  (cofounded by Cecil Green '24) Kendall Square (w/ 130 high-tech tenants) E*Trade, cofounded by MIT Sloan alum William Porter Electrical ... Modern urban design The theory of cosmic inflation, developed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  . - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. - The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... their entries from most to least crufty: It’s been a long road… by Jessie L. '07 I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog by

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  film. The mural was painted by Grace K. ‘11. Specimen 73617973:    Here ... volume of the comics The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was painted by ... , painted by Rachel B. ‘09. If you haven’t seen Star Trek, I think you should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... email: Now playing: "O Valencia!" by The Decemberists I haven't really ... would sink in and make my skin crawl. I had had enough panic attacks by

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... the seven of eight floors that have colorful ceilings, separated by ... have about MIT in the comments or by email. No matter what you choose

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  entirely by the students: in my experience so far, after a few starter lectures by the professor every student presents three lectures as a ... to a plane, bounded by any number of straight, uncurved lines, the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow." -- Neil Armstrong, February ... gets distracted by airplanes flying overhead, and gave Professor Darmofal

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024