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  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking ... , especially considering I hate physics. When I looked through some of the exams ... the content. It looks like it is written in a different language, which

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  short today), and then I wandered around the fair, looking for cool ... entail flipping burgers. The only practical result of this for me, since I ... baseball games. (This usually involves mocking the actual announcers for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and ... ’ll look different. No one will notice.” The first shifted his weight in his ... all of that is actually true, except for the mysterious power outage and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an ... that for every point in the set, there is a ball around that point that

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  's been pretty bored too. Being home for the spring semester of senior year ... , while Jen had a higher frequencies for shorter words. Distribution of the ... frequency (on a log scale, for better visibility) the number of words modified

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for ... " for short. Since its inception, Guild members have infiltrated the KGB ... so famous for its improvisational acting. When you add the other

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past ... did really, really horribly. For some reason, I doubt that is the case ... scans.) Also, a gift for you - a map of the MBTA, Super Mario style! In

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  man reading the words, but then, in retrospect the prize for first place ... biology, but I decided against that one and went for the biomedical ... . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  looking for (also not true—admissions officers consider your application within the context of your environment, and they’re looking for people from ... the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  experiences—I decided to look for the essays I actually wrote when I applied to ... scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name ... Hunt is over. This year, the Hunt organizers kept their HQ open for ... just for the sake of doing puzzles in sleep-deprived delirium. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  answers and their corresponding dorms to create the quiz for the blogs ... questions until the day before the dorm decision form was released for ... preference for the "weirdo/goth letters (v,w,x,y,z)", which won 30.6% of East

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science ... rejuvenation and love for school again this past fall. It was definitely looking ... I just had to put the book down. When I finished it, I felt empty for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  reflected soft diffused light and made my skin look great on Zoom for the ... posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  know if you ever want a job," he told me, "I've been looking for a Super ... poster for Thursday's showcase: and in the process realized that I don't like the "safe" option of plain white slides for presentations. It

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the ... the student center, for dinner during his all-night vigils in lab. And I ... requires paperwork filed through the UROP office "I took my UROP for credit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then ... lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... the final.  After dropping the class, I honestly felt my motivation for ... I was low on rations, I shouldn’t just keep going for the sake of not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  Banerjee who run the MISTI-India program and told them that I was looking for ... immunizations and health checkups for malnourished children. The goal was to help ... just the tip of the iceberg of what MIT has to offer for international

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , and more generally, techniques for studying how the brain works as a ... and language development. Also, the biological basis for many mental ... .URG (Undergraduate Research) - UROP for credit. The term I did it (last

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006