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  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  Pain, only to find out that they were out of chocolate chip cookies ... characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I ... joined a group of people from New House 3 (a neighboring living group) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... 10 days rowing, eating and sleeping. And video review of course. It’s a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining. You ... up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply ... to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... is lots of fun with a variety of interesting threads (this is my ... group) confirm that you're actually a member of the class

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Igor Stravinsky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of ... creator of an appropriate dispostion--the article was indeed about ... possibility of incorporating a formic acid fuel cell into a handheld cell phone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months ... drinking that soda. Thanks to Shilpa for telling me that dubious bit of ... print out a copy of this entry and submit that. So in 6.003 there are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out ... lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box, because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  particularly notable. On the other hand, knowing all of the South Dakotans who ... interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... [/annotation] from South Dakota this year. Naturally, I put all of them on a mailing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... drafts and actually posting, and part of that requires not thinking so

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... wednesday of april, i could almost feel covid looming threateningly over me ... proved over the course of a week. but anyways, i saw a message that petey

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... , no one heavily edits my blog posts, no one quality controls most of the ... yet, Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later, took me two weeks of work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... some of these things. Since freshman spring, I only ever taken as many ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018