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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  in rapid succession. Everyone involved in running it is a volunteer ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  class participant is placed with a master teacher in a middle or high ... placement is in a charter school freshman Physics class. Every week, I don my ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  logical fallacies, how James Baldwin crushed William Buckley in a debate in ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  MIT in one of my philosophy classes. How does it go? “There is no ... reading your blog. Write her or him a letter.” I wrote elsewhere in the ... , I guess. God, why is this so difficult? I’m just talking in circles

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... ’t have a word in any language for the color blue, because blue is actually

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... culture at a critical moment in my career. It taught me so much about the ... other people in the country who truly understand how hard the job is. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  ’m grateful for how supportive she is; even though she criticizes a significant ... barely overlap. In fact, our lives don’t overlap much; I’ve bumped into Nisha around campus a grand total of three times in all these months here

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... times, because time management is such a necessity. Sometimes I tell

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... it is. A map of all the places that I loved at MIT, color coded and ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  how I identify myself as Filipino. Sure, this is truly a label that ... like I’m watching a glitch in the matrix. The fact that my identity is ... loving writing so much that I pursue a major in it. Or pursuing something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid ... spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I ... aside, I got a good night's sleep and felt much better in the morning (it ... course, because radio astronomy is the best. As a radio astronomer-in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses ... science major (with a potential double major in ???? because there's too much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  there is a D9 presence at MIT and show the many benefits of joining one.   Learning About D9s D9 is a shorthand for “Divine Nine'', a casual ... fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... loops on a highway of rainbows. There is no way to uniformly describe how ... figure out what works for you. There is no shame in dropping a class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011