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  The end of a chapter

  

  :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in ... spending a year in Cambridge is traveling around the UK and continental ... England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  underground party in which electronic music is played, dancing occurs in a very ... eating upperclassman-cooked pancakes with too much syrup at four in the ... , pancakes is a really weird looking word. 03:17 - 06:17 Curry Curry You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... there is really not a difference in our process between someone who scores ... math. So why, as the commentor asks, is there such a difference in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only ... -nighter. Relief is a powerful force.   The coolest things you will hear in college ... you will learn in college is The Value of Friendship. I have a friend

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  Adams, Terry Pratchett deals in hilarity and improbabilities. Here is a ... rocket is the ship Serenity from Firefly, a space western and one of the ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics ... much of what happens in life is outside of our control. You schedule ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  sun starts rising and stops again. There is a sketchy f---er in the EC ... and there is a document in your queue that you didn’t put there. You print it out. It is a diagram of the human nervous system in blue and red

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen ... months for me in a closet on campus; now it would wait another six months

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... /angry bosses/lives lost if you push back a post. We post how ever much we want, pretty much whenever we want. But, being a blogger is competitive, dare I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to ... waitlists. And so that path is now open for me to walk down — a path that, in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... ! How do I get into hacking!? Is it a club or something? Well thought out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... decide between majors is to take classes in them! Pick a HASS class, like ... a schedule now If you have absolutely no clue how to pick classes, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  that you know. How do you determine if someone is not interested in a ... , intelligent people in a single place. It is a good place to meet people you ... sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  you have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in general and ... each pixel? There is such a joy in eyeballing where things should be ... step is particularly key because you have no idea how the text in your

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  man who built a 20 foot flamethrowing exoskeleton in my linkdump post a ... Guan. Charles will be graduating tomorrow with a degree in mechanical ... , like a Segway, is a self-balancing scooter, but, unlike the Segway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  start. But however scary that may sound, this is not a post about how stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  're up to over ten bucks! How crazy is that?! Ben, I think you really are a ... . Also, I'm going to be in Madrid in 4 days and still don't have an apartment. So I'm still hosed, and only taking a small break to remind you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008