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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... firehose. In reference to this came the adjective hosed, meaning bogged down in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  FRIEND FROM MINNESOTA: where in minnesota are you from FRIEND FROM ... sing ME: music * * * FROSH: so what do you major in ME: aerospace ... ME: let me take you to shallow goodale ME: the best salon in boston

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... published in Popular Science and friends who build something amazing and ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... you should do this week in 3 easy steps (results not guaranteed, though ... your own essays, you’ll just fill in the gaps of information that someone

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  keeping me from getting too excited about ceremonies in general. After four ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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 / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood ... disclaimer here to say that I'll mostly be talking about internships in the ... internships in April, before my internship for 2019 had even started. [caption

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who " ... enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in ... After sending the email I got curious about the URL in the recipient's

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... videos in a playlist below. Here's a masterlist of all the vlogs, with little descriptions (in case you want to pick and choose which videos to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take ... freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... cool to see in real life. you could see all the wiring on the inside too ... "] ah yes, a normal day in lecture with a normal set of... people sitting

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  each other. So like a background character in a movie poster, Harvard was drawn weeping in the background. The Harvard mascot’s facial features bear ... put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for

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

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

  

  tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... freshman, and she is considering majoring in Aerospace Engineering (course 16

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  realized I had just lost my glasses in the fall. It's okay, I found them, and ... actually, it's not true. In fact, there were several students in my ... snowboard and don't even need to take lessons and in the ice skating PE class

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Student Game Night, and Add Date Check-In, and… It’s a list of things that ... .2%, respectively[3]), but it still means 16% of students won’t graduate in the ... arrive early to help Laura set up. We spread out, settle in at different

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke ... combine them for tasty results. With this revelation in hand, I've gotten ... 't mean "start brushing your teeth eight hours before class starts." In high

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019