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• 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 ... from those communities, I've put together this blog that details a non ... the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• 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.

  

  . The system that preceded it is a system in two variables—we created the ... grandfather, who was very, very dear to me, emphasized to me that there is a lot ... , the thing I am ultimately studying, is young enough that depending on

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

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... with you discover that the student group was disbanded in 1967. It is ... as Listener, but as Taster. You do notice a distinct flavor in your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... each other. So like a background character in a movie poster, Harvard was ... an uncanny similarity to that of Lord Farquaad, so I may have taken

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  hours and hours. That's how it goes, sometimes. I still have a couple ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... support. I've been told many a time that I don't look like my avatar (none

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post ... that used to freeze me up around water. As a recovering perfectionist, I ... lessons and regress and retreat from who I could be...that hurt a lot. It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  events is so much more than that. Food events are a great place to meet new ... best thing you can do is find out if you feel comfortable in the MIT ... , "I never thought I'd be in a fraternity/sorority." K: You might think

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how ... That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  Fraternity, contacted alumni members in Boston and found that there was a ... learned early on in her research that these organizations would be a part of ... committee membership. People trust that you will do a great job and put your

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... efforts to try. Isn't it ironic that in my attempt to look after myself, I ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... -come, first-serve basis, and there are a few that get snatched up right away. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the ... . Somewhere in all that fun we actually were productive! I'll admit that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  ? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It’ll do ... do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now . . . oh! this is an ... Wars (I know, I know). Cory tells me that the Death Star is an

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

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for ... Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  that. For the first time in a while, I was facing a stressful situation ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  machines. CONS: As the subtitle suggests, the gym is a little… scrappy in ... ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one ... connect with you on that level, here is my voice, here is who I am ... that is fine. But there's a big difference between those little

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  in yelling obscenities at a perfectly nice Sing-Along Blog that has ... underground party in which electronic music is played, dancing occurs in a very ... knowledge of knots is not for naught. I can knot understand how anyone could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013