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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , but I was kinda sad the trail ran cold so soon. Then, I reached out to ... was, and still is, the room of floorpi's Graduate Resident Advisor, or ... West), I found the attached email. You will see that this is dated from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of ... ’s beloved linguistics professor "prof. albright", or “adam”, as i knew him ... asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there ... : Historical context [carousel image1="60402" image2="60403" /] First catalog ... » 1880 1880: Historical context [carousel image1="60822" image2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  into ~1cm bits. Bone stock: Sear bones in duck fat with shallot ... bite sized pieces. Beat 1 egg (or 2, if you plan on adding lots of ... pray that you do. A few key facts about me that may or may not provide

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  , machine learning, mobile app development, and data science regardless of ... resources out there. Whether it be costs, school funding, or even awareness of ... tools that people can use to explore new things or study different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... . The specific values and choices we disagree with are as follows: 1. By ... display is centering an award that has historically had a massive diversity

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  the area, like the old Star Market or Harvest Co-op, had closed down or ... oddly located, and requires either a car, a shuttle, or a 2+ mile long ... and stock up on bulk staples, but many people in Cambridge don't have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . My parents gave me my MacBook Pro as a gift before I left for MIT. It ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for your computer, once you buy your computer: A padded laptop bag with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , gets married, or goes through a similar major event, other sorors will ... like, it’s paramount to actually reach out to the chapter near you or the ... historically Black Greek letter organizations. My goal is to illustrate that

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  they sent an email and when I retrieved their data, or for people who ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT ... data on the self-reported underwear colors of people who have emailed the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble ... historical 1809 Park Street Church. On mild-weather days, my friends and I love

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  primary majors as of now."]21[/annotation] numbered courses, from 1: Civil ... use generative AI or whatever. Even more strongly, I wanted each card to ... methods, or that I wanted artist's notes for each card. Different artists

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  community, does not communicate what your coaches or teachers or mentors will ... Splash are useful, they will begin, subconsciously or consciously, to tailor ... students how likely it is that they will be admitted to each school on their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 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?

  

  .nano” as a url. You and your will to work shrink by a factor of 1E-9. Tom B ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am ... you have five psets. You don’t know where the extra pset came from or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  , data that will probably remain long after we’re gone, in some capacity ... applications to MIT, or off at a different school just enjoying the blogs, these ... . The beginning of a new year, or a decade even, always has the wonderful

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  jawbreakers, while iconic, are hard to sell so nobody keeps them in stock. So ... posted this before? I think I've posted this before. 1) Teaching During ... know you can identify what you like or don't like about a video but can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
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  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  emails advertising that they're either selling or giving away their ... dorms were either closed or being used by people in MIT's various summer ... to the bottom for my concerns about how COVID-19 will affect FSILGs and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all ... (Harvard MD) Chemical engineer for ExxonMobil Computer engineer at Akamai ... (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... the scientific community we trust data and analysis, not assertions

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

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011 ... MIT'S Global Education office -- and then undergo a rigorous application ... universities, and Spencer was among 31 selected; the scholarship will fund his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015