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  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

   why clothespins are called C47s. Most of the time, though, I felt silly asking (or ... creating an artificial mid-afternoon, there’s nothing comparable to watching ... design-oriented than practical/get-your-hands-dirty sometimes) because that’s

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  here’s another guest post from my friend, jacky. he cooks. he’s really ... foundation of genuine happiness. Small wonder that the U.S. has such ... ? Seriously? [annotation note="cj: okay, jacky’s palate is very sophisticated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  -day Dynasty family line. True to my wishes, it’s so big now that we’ve never ... exchange of ideas and excitement about Ethiopian-Eritrean culture on MIT’s ... R. ‘17, Jen S. ‘18, Kayla T. ‘18, Trang N. ‘18, myself, and Javier W

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... , but part of me feels like it’s a cop-out, as I’ve already taken a ... . In reality, it’s done by puzzling over equations for days on end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd ... doubt, as we have so many responsibilities and plans. But it’s do-able if ... . P/S: The little boy just came over to say Hi! So much love. Courtesy

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  humankind, working with others to bring knowledge to bear on the world’s great

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  fire, to avoid burning out before the semester has even started. It’s

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  /label/digitize everything but that’s less interesting). So, here are some of the coolest

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  range. Coming from a student who had just as many Bs (mainly B+'s, since MIT doesn't give extra GPA for +'s and -'s) as As in science classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... his involvement with S-Check, an infidelity detection spray that wives

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  you live in – because, surprise surprise, there’s one beyond that which ... family at home and don’t know what you’re doing at this school and it’s

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

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that the 1970s would finally be when East Campus and Senior House would ... want to read up more on what East Campus was like in the 1920s, and what ... Whiskey logo, finds its origins in the 1970s, and the shirts are still sold

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  growing up and with the increasing interconnectedness of our world, it’s now ... : Paul’s Online Math Notes Link: tutorial.math.lamar.edu Description ... ; Channel Name: Heimler’s History (History/Social Studies) Link: Heimler’s

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  four study legs, made out of 4x4s, the classic EC loft pillar material. I ... shelf pieces together, I would connect them underneath with 2x2s. The only ... went with another set of 2x2s, parallel to the floor and connecting the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual ... enrollment among women and minorities through 80s, and rightly so—very few ... wrote in the 1984 Report, "the character of MIT’s student body is dictated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , and disabled good judgment, equivalent to about a full night’s sleep, or ... decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  difficulty; but 5.112, for example, is harder than 5.111. GIR(s) - General Institute Requirement(s). Pronounced "gee-eye-our(s)." HASS - Humanities, Arts

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  asking what people’s favorite classes were. I received 130 responses ... classes but only 8 2020s responded to my survey and all with different ... approachable.  The labs tie-in the week’s lessons well, and you can see how each

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020