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  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  experience, with many exciting things that I had the opportunity to experience, my thoughts about the future, plans, worry, all that. But I scratched ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  Somewhere along the way, the MIT campus picked up a distinctive, localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did fill the whiteboard with various drawings. I wanted something truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  na lang umuulan (it's always raining)[/caption] Ambon. The Philippine languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  The most frequent question I received during CPW was: "You're pre ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I think this is mostly because the history people study just… doesn ... , or the readings from this OCW course. These are all histories of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since. If you've never met the Milk, then you should read Vincent's biography of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August ... the indignant rumble of my ungrateful stomach, which was screaming for food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  - consider the following exchange: HIM: "So what course are you?" YOU: "Uh ... : "Yeahhhh....." This happens all the time at MIT. III. Additionally, premeds like to say that they are different from "all the other premeds." cf

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , disheartened and hoping that the test will be ridiculously curved - it couldn ... around 24 hours to catch up with all the sleep you’ve missed this week. Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the Zeta Psi house. Since it was raining lightly, I sprinted to the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  In the time I've been at MIT, we've had some interesting characters pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  really ever came to anything. Among all the thoughts, only one feels all that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I've taken so many L's. Physics L The summer before you come to MIT, you have

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  I still remember when I first stepped into the arrivals hall at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most disappointing or the spookiest Halloween ever. But right now I’m going to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  The brass drops off, and suddenly you're alone with the rhythm ... ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school jazz band in sixth grade, and then continued with the high school version

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011