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  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  five questions. They are very simple, very straightforward, and this ... , full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about ... appeals to you and why? What attribute of your personality are you most

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  pretty serious "there are too many people named Chris" problem here in the ... employ some different tactics in addressing this issue. In my free time, I ... it's going to start ringing" technique. Anyway, that said - here are a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  Dihydroxylation Ozonolysis The Chemistry of Free Radicals Addition of ... hack and the game are even more awesome than mere words can describe ... 'll disagree, but I have to say that the Smash Balls/Final Smashes are pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and ... are a laying band, too. We are that talented. Actually, sitting here ... played the absolutely most transcendent rendition of "We Are The Engineers

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  ’ve been having about MIT: How hard are classes, really? What kinds of things ... !) Remember: the people at the meeting are not affiliated with Admissions so you ... universe, and everything with an awesome group of people and free food! If

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  explanation is in the next section. If you ARE familiar with it, skip ahead ... how your eyes are wired. Instead, your eyes see brightness on a ... of raw light does not mean twice the brightness." Your eyes are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  distributed probability waves, but are ultimately unsuccessful and, along with ... would like. These events are the most visible external feature of CPW: they are many, well attended, and thoroughly documented. However, I

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark ... drive up close, you have to use a car that runs on diesel. There are some ... supervisor, and they figured that something so regular had to be man-made

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  Rules You are a student at [annotation note="which stands for Missouri ... dorm where each resident has a score that determines their priority in ... this game, where maximizing your score would mean choosing a set of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  mainly about two things: how to make interfaces that are intuitive and easy ... compiled by the authors. There were two takeaways from the paper that made it memorable: People are bad at this. The average test subject found between

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  you if the details are hazy (at least I wouldn't). Having clearly ... you get the right people who are reliable for the job. Take into account ... rental car? Will you get a bus pass? Search early. The best deals are the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  , where you're taught to primarily regurgitate the information obtained from textbooks. After I thought about it some, it made a lot of sense: -During 7 ... of bio exams are about the application of fact, rather than simply

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  /allowed, loose/lose, or choose/chose issues (these are the mistakes I find most often on reddit.com, which you should by no means EVER visit if you are ... lampooned the site's commenters. I'm not saying you guys are morons, but

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  I have to think about the real world.  Things like where to live, what ... temporary made it easier. My roommate (I live with real people too...) I've made some real food this summer as well, but often times I'm just too

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  -night show binges often are combined with falling into a youtube wormhole ... it in competitions. In SEVT, there are 3 subteams, Mechanical, Electrical, and Aerodynamics/Composites. I’m in the latter of these, where I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  friends, Jessie L. 27’ and Pierre C. are taking the class with me, and we ... with this opera thing. I didn’t know where it was, when it was, I didn ... flesh desires, but they also longed to be with their wives. It made them

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  emotions? So I’ll give an example where the other person openly admitted ... . Maybe this resentment would’ve manifested in ways that are completely ... these defensive tactics, why are you even friends with this guy? But it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  time around, mostly because I feel like there are metaphysically bigger ... photoshopping women's bodies should be made illegal, and various other happenings ... mine and I are taking this class together, and we're super psyched to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020