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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  same way, if I was in their shoes. How could we have solved this? How do ... each other in an environment like this? How can we build community? III ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . All of this was fine and good, and I kind of enjoyed watching how MIT ... route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... Faneuil Hall in the winter.    Boston Harbor I saw the ocean for the first ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... 't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ... covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential

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

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
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  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 ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don ... on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean ... . I’ve been converted to Messenger, so I guess he won in the end.)  We ... % sure he didn’t realize I existed in [annotation note="wow i am being

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  person in Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. I: The Magician / 3: Materials ... . How can a finite language contain infinite utterances? Artist: Shuli J ... : Michaela P. '24, major in Biology. I don't really have much of an artist

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse ... impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the ... break, Erin and I came in every day and pounded out code until the motors

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
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  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011