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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still ... would be to be proactive in finding people I vibe with, and to look ... a few years before I came to MIT, I was confused about how things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units ... 't even sweat it. It never hurts to know how to do a chi-square test (or to ... was in your shoes, so please feel free to ask me questions about SATs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... these two yet. =) In any case, it's getting complicated. Here are the ... in some countries rather than in others; how political institutions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... . Now, in fall of my senior year (gah that's still scary to write down ... —but getting to read the likes "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  trying to get it published. Before speaking with Boris, I had never ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will receive with your next big mailing (scheduled to be sent out early May), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  . Here in Part 2, I've analyzed the remaining four games, hoping to gain more ... select 5 integers in the range 1 to 50, inclusive. For each integer k you ... three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  . This summer, we've had more time to be in the kitchen, and we've made a ... 's pretty magical about this dish is seeing how quickly so much liquid gets ... summer to make it. It was worth it! We ate the whole thing in the matter of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  dots in advance to know how to position the starting frame when we ... ://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19318310[/caption] To project all these reels with no noticeable breaks in ... frames or ⅔ seconds. Pretty confusing, but you’ll get used to it relatively

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... about to pack up and leave when we saw—get ready for this—Bubble Man. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry in an effort to get back into ... , seeing as my immediate reaction to getting sick was thinking that this was ... after were good. So now I'm back here, learning how to not be burnt out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... jumped in to the kid's defense and started roundhouse kicking those bikers ... make a reference to the scene in Veronica Mars where Logan was attacked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  's just so hard to get through a whole book in a non-native language. It ... reflect some recent letters to the editor which had been published in the ... in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls ... part, but I love how people in this major help each other out, lift each

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  interested in a varsity sport, but I definitely didn't speak to the coach until ... answered here, it was probably lost in the transfer to the new site ... excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also, if anyone took any pictures, I may be able to post a few here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005