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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  where nothing is being learned We have an Asian (15% of the total asian population of my school) We have an Hispanic (30% of the total hispanic ... water bottle We have the teacher taking a picture of the lack of learning

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance regarding the proper exact spelling of the word. Are they psets, Psets, PSets

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the ... freshmen) recommended by the committee, plenty of us are pretty mad about it ... a study break for members of the class of 2009 to provide feedback

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  into tech when I know it's not what I want to do at the end of the day ... revisiting the show Fleabag as of late and when I watch interviews with Andrew ... performing. I loved the idea of entertaining other people in any form or shape

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about the insane story of how Tetris was made, and the Creator Alexey Pajitnov

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  ('22) and Wesley Block ('22) on the history of the Institute, spanning ... , Luke came across the film and was struck by its breadth of archival ... . [annotation note ="shoutout to the amazing archival detective work of undergrad

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  that were too high in quality), eventually, I came up with the idea of ... the beginning... 9/8/21 - First Day of the Semester After all the pre-semester fun, the time had finally risen for all of us students to return to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  you the short and long version of this post, and you can choose! It ... have good friends who live there - Keri is just sort of.. the anti ... , regardless of whether you apply for RBA or not. Even if you don't apply for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got ... for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team ... for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit ... misti. turns out, miguel is thinking of misti also for the summer ... -help quotes go... "failure is not the opposite of success—it's part of success

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... addressing many of the issues within their system. I hope that you, like me ... organizations under the values of sisterhood, scholarship, service, leadership

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  out today and the sky is full of clouds, it's dreary, all of the ... permeating everything, the dread of what is due next week. I met all sorts of ... take pictures of myself during CPW (go figure) so I stole some off of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... , but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape ... honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  .” On the content of essays: someone has probably said to you, “Write ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion~*~ might be gone. Is it passion if you are still in the middle of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  how much I love/hate the current series of events, or praise ... of the Senior House community: Dear [insert name here], I write on ... undermine our shared goals for the safety, health, and academic success of all

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017