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  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  be very proud of. But it's not something I'm going to bust out my ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with ... be good roommates, good mentors, good friends. We do not admit test

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  I'm really not that intelligent, and that there are many others who ... out of an A, but deep down I know I deserved that B. Not only that, but ... somehow managed not to get them. Recently I took the SATs as well, which I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of Rebecca Black. And yes, that is our former Communications Director Ben Jones costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought ... strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and

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

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  probably figured, "Hmm, definitely not mine. I’m lactose-intolerant."" Other ... negligence w/r/t basic testing, not to mention the logistical curdles posed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  only printed and not uploaded anywhere online because the file size was ... iterations of the freshman application (where not too much has changed with the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  universities that you can go to for your education. It's not like MIT teaches ... occurence that it's not until I'm away from campus that it really sinks in how

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  most fluent in English, there are some added thoughts here that were not ... Chinese-language post not mentioned here. The content is a bit different for ... and school--I felt that I was at least not exactly American, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  mandating that children should not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution any ... : Another mission not mentioned in the job description: entertain the audience ... : 1. The Ig Nobel Prize for Biology and Astronomy (not usually dished

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  quarters. Not content with having sprinkled the visitors, the residents of ... sign was spirited away, and according to latest reports. had not been ... their aspirations. [The editors] would not be surprised to find the gilt

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  are still not quite clear to me, I raised my hand almost every time. I ... was soloing whether I wanted to or not. And boy, was it good for me. I ... your head up high when doing something you're not good at, in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  . She offered me items like floaters—which the class normally did not use ... trivial, and certainly not a kind of negative stamp on who I was, it got ... to stand, and I made it, by walking not swimming, shivering and utterly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... campus. Buildings in main campus do not have a letter in front and just ... good idea to get familiar with it. It is in fact not that long, so it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  that's not the case. You tend to only notice the large groups, but the ... . 13.B.Dye your hair! N: Okay, this might not be for everyone but if ... awesomeness. If that's not enough... ROOT BEER FLOATS! N: Two words. Chris

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  conversational phrases @ MIT that are likely to be, um, not-so-conversational at ... coordinates of the salt are not within the domain of my arm. Spacetime ... philosophy that if you don't succeed at first, you might as well not succeed in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• 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

  

  people who read them. That's where this post differs. It is probably not ... "] west campus is not included because i'm gonna be real, i think i only ... . Nano Diner!: Not sure what this is actually called, but all the little

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

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

  

  -size rat darts up the bank—that we could not be anyone else, that because we ... . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to not being so, we sense—and now there are four of these animals, suddenly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Boston but I am pretty sure it would not fly with campus police. But if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011