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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is ... Obama address is AWESOME! Let's see, the guy in front of me helped design

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  't getting an A in this class. WHY? Your work is not good enough, and here are ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... is represented in all capital letters in English translations of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  into bins based on how much I liked them. The UROP was bad, the web ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing ... before is how visual web development is. My programming roots were making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  know you’ve put in a lot. Here is my deep life advice, for the next week ... magic didn’t happen. MIT is not a magic wonderland. There are grades ... the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ! Bite my nails less! This is a practical resolution, in one sense, and ... more prior experience), is not about exactingly following a recipe and then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so ... turns out publishing a series of consecutive posts is not easy, even with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... be challenged by, and how much; like whether you are ready for a period ... , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• 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 ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  my day into a single statistic, which is how much work i got done, how ... about this a month and a half ago, but the gist is that i’m working in a ... this was a mistake. it feels as if my work is tearing my body apart, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  how your UROP is going, seeing your a cappella group perform. I come ... same way. I've written before about how the class is selected, but I ... . Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  in more depth in one of my essays for a CI-H I took, but the gist is ... change your perspective in a lot of ways, and one of those ways is ... , I guess?). My story is still very much unfolding, but MIT was a part

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  . Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... would be taking next term at MIT. So, I added a trendline in the form of a ... , it was like 12 AM, and I was going to get a B in the class no matter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... about how fun or less fun each one was. On accuracy, a common thought ... test in a different mood”, which to me highlights a key flaw in any kind

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... off in a film on their own after you soak them, and cleaning is easy ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God. It is the night before Easter. We are in the in-between, says another

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... .  In those situations, a new interpretation, spawned either by creative

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... expensive everything is. We could cross Harvard Bridge at two in the morning ... to Prudential and complain about how expensive everything is. We could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is ... opinion is biased against American cuisine as a whole, considering that my ... jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020