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  Paths there are so many

  

  tingles briefly like a paper cut. Since we think our thought process is ... definitely NOT. It is rather one, among so many other valid options. It's a ... We were deferred when we applied early to MIT, and remember how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  thinktank nature of people around here. Thinking is a hobby for many people ... problem solving, seeing people win grants and contests is a such a regular ... lobby 7. This is a place of dreamers, thinkers, and creators. The

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... definitely next on the list. There is a mini-Bible from before college, but I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference ... a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge."]Last week[/annotation] I got back [annotation note="how the process for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus ... 're more of a sorority though * * * ME: how's it going FROSH: ME: FROSH ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  highlighted for me is that I just haven’t come across a lot of great resources ... below. There is a good chance that everyone else will appreciate your ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
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  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
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  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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