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  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  amount of money I can spend in this convenience store that will keep me ... thought about life. I thought about space, politics, and the new vegan place ... , weekly psets, recitations, or class readings that are all baselines. I can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... above I've explained how MIT's student body has seen an uptick in ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  , simpler dream. To just do the absolute best I can do in whatever I end up ... . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in ... chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  . The family I had in our home of Simmons Hall was generous and I can ... will look like out in the real world. A real world where I can't just ... [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  squeezing my stomach in their fist? Why can't I get out of bed in the morning ... want to say that the future scares me. But how can I be scared of ... over it for not knowing how to utilize these tools from the start. I can

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so I had a vague notion of how it would work. The main idea was to use ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... office hours, I feel just a little like a genius. Students come in, hopelessly confused, and I can (sometimes) instantly recognize their problem

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... library, find a quiet corner, and immerse myself in your lives. I read ... about how you've stood tall in the face of racism, homophobia, poverty

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  also really wanted to learn how to lift weights and Get Buff (so i can ... still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... I was late (what else is new), but then I got distracted by Benson L

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... dawned on me that in order to use Android Device Manager, I'd have to log

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• 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.

  

  -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... , biology, and mathematics—and I’ve also had to take courses in physics and ... the very start I wrote with the dual purpose of turning in and posting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since I could be exploring a new and fascinating part of the institute I ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... in the world can have breakfast or building cities or improving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
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  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  East Coast a bit... unfriendly?" Now, to be fair, I still can't answer ... work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... me back in for free since I had already paid once. Anecdote 5

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... ’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• 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?!

  

  . Seeing how “most Tech students desire single rooms, the new dormitory has a ... of the new dormitories. Sixty-eight years later, in May of 1994, the ... rest can be found in the MIT Libraries. Articles from The Tech

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  in Plato’s cave for a bit). Yet, in matters of race, I think there are ... . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember--mostly because I never “look the part” for anything, anywhere, in any culture. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  channels, about what was going on. How I had an essay due in one of my ... that I didn’t feel anything, not fear, not panic, in response. How ... intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  : What comes next? How do I prioritize the people and activities in my life ... In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... happy, encouraging; they will reflect the growth I've felt in the corners

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020