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  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  . Home is still wonderful. Being home is a great time for deep ... , and the prospect of A's is almost heart-attack-inducing. I don't think ... lecture I had a one hour break with no classes. One hour is not a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  -Ford search algorithm is going to make me a better person, why should I waste my ... Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... is worth the sacrifice. We start most nights with a demonstration ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... a mold. The warm plastic is then sucked down on top of the mold to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a ... to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and ... detailed explanation, see Snively ‘11’s post from 2009.) This rule is a huge ... . Formally, for an event or truth A and an event or truth B, Bayes’ Theorem is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  army is a lot like getting rejected from your favorite college. That ... ’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a ... a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  were let go. Now they live wild all through the river. “It is a real ... . Traveling is like this: a three-part combination of discomfort, homesickness ... logical fallacies, how James Baldwin crushed William Buckley in a debate in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  news is, like I said before, all this destruction is a good thing. Or ... from yourself. That feeling, that feeling of growth is a new one. And it ... -shiŋFunction: adjective Date: 18251 : that smashes : crushing; a smashing defeat 2

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  catalog. You should do it. Now. Here is the link. I have spent a whole ... and Tissue Engineering Course 21A 21A.01 How Culture Works 21A.103 ... : The History of Now[/annotation] 21H.001: How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... the pattern for ulan is, as I mentioned earlier, a brief period of rain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... wear our Danger Third Rail (how 3E is affectionately referred to) t

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and ... Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a ... retire early."]yelling[/annotation] the entire time. A colleague recently

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... such an incredible collection. whatever you find is going to add a lot of ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013