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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  sorry to inform you, we already are.” Everything I am doing is a dream ... sequel (or what I thought would be a sequel) to 6.046, design and analysis of algorithms (TAs are capped at two classes). TAing is hard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  impact on me that the student had "the magic 1600." Yes, scoring a 1600 is ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with ... to have a picnic on that Saturday. Because to us, a 760 math is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• 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

  

  that lived in a hermetically sealed jar in Random Hall and is ... 21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since

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

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... wonder what she could possibly mean by this. “Huh?” “Well, this is just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  hallway to the Compton Lounge, where there is a seemingly unlimited supply ... you don’t like free food, you’ll love it here, too – there is also a lot ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... mechanical engineering. I'd never taken a final before winter break or got out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  在这里可以看中文版。 Note: This is a loose translation. Since of course I am ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... Shanghai dialect, “we are Shanghainese.” This is a very colloquial, well

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a ... round in the magazine. Don’t give up the mission. This is a mantra Coach ...        “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . The barista is a young woman wearing an apron, her long, blonde hair in ... , MIT is the best at that, right?” “Well, I learned a ton, that’s for sure.” “I think MIT is the best at everything.” “It’s a fantastic place, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  their conference, NEWMAC! NEWMAC is a conference including Babson, Clark ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2 ... Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  expected from -- MIT students is a core feature of our educational mission ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  I just said is a horrible lie. Here’s the truth: I have never taken ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... being sincere. “Being yourself” is not a trap, because it’s yourself who

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  layout is that the streets are 60ft wide (about a dozen running crosstown ... Now playing: "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles It was a ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ! Everyone loves a free concert. In conclusion, WMBR is awesome. If nothing ... answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after Luís Francisco Verges’ death, a fellowship in his name is still ... Hartford District Committee for MIT alumni. Holman’s life is the dream for a ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024