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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , I was back in the classroom coteaching my next class, How to Read a ... from what it was just a few hours ago. By the time I arrive in East ... I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... . Sleepyti.me tells you when and how much to sleep so that you feel rested in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  't overstate how important I think housing is in making CPW work. During our ... earliest thing I've seen in the Tech that could be considered an admitted ... documentation, at least not in the places I looked at. Only passing mentions in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
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  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  pictures in the comments! I personally haven’t had a good cry yet, but when I do, it will probably be in one of the lounges on my floor at East ... this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  told him how grateful I was. In response, he sent the following meme to ... math on all the equipment I was buying and wondering if it would be worth ... !"]strenuous[/annotation] exercise isn't just how I stay fit: it's how I stay sane. I've found I need

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  not belong on the MIT admissions website” post. At least, that's what I ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and agonized over choosing a major. I was worried that making decisions would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my ... , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international student orientation, I (along with all the other internationals) ate in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I ... into class with that single objective, but I came out wiser in other ways

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought I would. I grew up in small towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... , in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about them. Note #1: I have of course not worked all of the following jobs in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential ... channel was one of the reasons I loved biology back in high school)   ... ’s History Description: Thee, and I mean thee, YouTube channel to help you in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  find out by chance that two of my friends know each other in ways I would ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note ... [/annotation]of East Campus. I was coming from the east parallel, where I had been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
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  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  possibility. Often, I would walk along the same street, music tucked in my ears ... Tumblr: “We would commiserate with each other about how high school felt ... elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
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  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and ... sure to keep you warm in the winter, because here is something I knew but didn't really understand at your age: BOSTON IS COLD. I would also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... " align="aligncenter" width="400"] a snippet of when I had it in Thailand ... their own take and I enjoyed all of them. I love my Thai culture and how

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 9, 2023
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  demons on depression

  

  was, about how serious mental illness was, about how maybe I would feel ... pulling down the mental lever of how much I liked myself, and in the worst ... yours? To be truly happy, then. How would I know what that felt like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• 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?!

  

  were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original ... . At most institutions, campus construction would be mentioned in the ... wood in the walls. Few institutions would even bother to share these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  .112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008