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  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... going over the methodology in lecture until tomorrow. Oh, and then there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... sphingosine, a) draw in all of the hydrogen atoms. Label each sp3 carbon ... pedigree [not pictured in this entry], which shows the inheritance of a very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... kids stuffed in a New Vassar study room, being on campus during my first

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... in his explanations and was passionate about the content.  2. 8

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you ... applied to their walking. with that in mind, this post contains some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  hopefully there will be something in here for all readers of the blogs. Eric ... come in the door and that you're ready for MIT's really challenging, fast-paced core curriculum in math and science and in humanities, arts, and social

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , seasonal flowers, pretty architecture, AC in dorms, or just generally ... with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early ... . Accordingly, MIT lies in this awkward liminal space between having some of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... . My younger ears knew that it was a very prestigious school in sunny ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... generate these signals in real time and feed them into the oscilloscope. The ... Tetris as a built-in easter egg. Putting it together With this background

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways to avoid this though. But I personally don't want to put in the work

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... practice to always keep the muzzle pointed at a safe direction. In the range ... in order to shoot a pellet; another part of safety was to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  ="aligncenter" width="592"] RESCIND[/caption] So let's begin. In middle school and a ... found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the ... lot of comfort in OTV content. Being so absorbed into social media for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... , but I’m renting an apartment in Cambridge with two other lovely frosh ... at the kitchen table and I look out at the river, I feel like I’m in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  (characters, not columns – durned kids today, always thinking in pixels). Back in my – err, my dad’s – day... Right. Moving on. Back in January, when I was enrolled in this year’s Silly Robot Extravaganza 4000, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... with dial-up internet. That’s the issue with living in the country, slow ... wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  registration form for CPW?" You can register for CPW in your MyMIT Portal. Just click on the Registration link in the big red CPW box in the lower right ... in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... sociology discussion about gender roles and stereotypes in flirting and dating

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this floppiness is, we must first understand some differential geometry. In ... surface curves in 3D space at a given point on the surface. Each direction

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025