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• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  treadmill... You're only human after all. Eventually a routine sets in. You ... perhaps 5 classes and a UROP are too much... But heck, I've learned so much ... . Make a difference. Class of 2016, you're in for the journey of a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... the antithesis in siddhartha, the protagonist siddhartha is raised in a ... interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and ... in a given project. There’s the project funder, which is the provider ... contractor and project funder enter a contractual agreement for how the work is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... . He mentioned how if your right hand is out after a punch, you make a ... pretty informally, the last time I did a sport formally was in 8th grade

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year and a half. At MIT the equivalent course is 18.01. It takes 3 months. If ... drinking out of a fire hose. That's because MIT shoves as much knowledge down

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... a class that is diverse in their interests and backgrounds. Yes, there ... school, broke up after a few months, realized how much they hated the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  9 8 2 1 4 5 3 6 4 7 5 Discussion: This is just a map, can't do too much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these ... after you solve the puzzle. Flavor Text: Lost in the jungle, Joe is

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the ... don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  interested in genetics or cells, which is a pretty big focus here. I'm more ... Hello! It has been a really long time since I posted :') My goal is ... thinking about a lot is my major, Course 20: Biological Engineering. My

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  , struck by a board with a nail in it as a child, got frostbite, and is ... 's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line ... --seldom is a space used for only one.   Barker Library In my experience

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... mechanics is just a very elaborate inside joke that physicists made up a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative that has many twists and turns, including how she went from being "a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually. Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is ... credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... teaching creativity-building educational modules at a youth shelter in Phnom ... in Cambodia. Greetings from Kampong Thom! It has been a jam

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  much of the lab as I can in one sitting. Since I haven't been in a coding ... carving, which we did in lab 2. This is a method where you remove pixels ... and to think about these ideas in a comparative way is super interesting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... hour and a half. We walked in opposite directions, happy that we met each

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  minor in college and this is my chance to explore music in a tangible ... , yeah, i had a background. this first pset is 5 problems long. seems ... glance. oh, how i was so wrong. i worked with my friend aiden who is also

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... dorms on campus. If someone likes a different dorm from the one they're in ... captains of our own destinies, but transitioning into college is a test you

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019