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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... help improve someone's life. I've always felt that most hackathons are

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  worms spilled over when I stumbled over the following twitch ... Faulkner parser, but as of right now, I feel like I need to run MATLAB before I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10-250, other students would have gotten there before I could. Last week, I had ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... different than east campus the group of buildings.) Alright, that’s it. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... = 11.514)[/caption] I arrived at 2 East when they had just reached the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a breath of perspective. Even if I had been rejected, my dog would ... afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... ’t care whether you got into MIT or not. I loved Eric’s post last year: don

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

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  exception of half a leg and an antenna. I figured it would be a waste of a ... food or drink water, I would catch a bit of hair in my mouth. Even when I ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . As I get ready to graduate, I wanted to share how I experienced Ben ... time here. And yes, I have remembered how lucky I am to be here every day ... , I have often referred to The Blogfather's advice, and some of his

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take ... photograph of a swing and how that image says more about the world than any

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have ... when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... week!), I discovered new favorite places and once again ascertained that

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

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  This semester I'm taking 4.110 Design Across Scales and Disciplines ... design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I ... . The assignment isn't about making something that would exist in reality

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  It's been a pretty rough week, so I took a break and drew out my struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... beastly exams and self-doubt and stuff. Though I hope that bit was pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , and how exactly this relates to the emphasis on science here I wouldn ... above I've explained how MIT's student body has seen an uptick in ... think about how it would have been to be a woman at MIT when only 5% of

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

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  also Dr. Abe’s memorial service. Today would have been his 99th birthday. Dr. Abe was my “American grandfather” since I was 16, without whom I never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be ... out, mumbling that it would be worth it compared to the other work i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend, Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their ... selective colleges, is really tough. It's hard to know how to gauge your likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011