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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  , kids. I had an exam yesterday, just got out of another exam, and have yet ... 've been doing with my life and which flights of stairs I've fallen down this ... cold with nothing to read about, though. (Speaking of, why is it so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken ... definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  lifestyle, independent of family and old friends, who were now one Atlantic ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... of October, fall semester of freshman year - and it had been one of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you can optimize walking significantly when armed with basic knowledge of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was ... powder.) (The great thing about cooking in college is that regardless of ... around to eat it. Never underestimate the stomachs of hungry college kids

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed festivity. The Moon shall glow ablaze, like a dragon’s eye, A drop of scalding

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  skeptical of my chances at getting into Microsoft, because I had only taken ... . And out of all three teams at Microsoft I applied to, I only got ... about her in-person experience here) but due to. . . the state of the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I ... which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  see a stack of lahmajo on the bakery counter, I cross the street and buy ... myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I ... “ohmygodimgonnagetatummyachetomorrowwhydididothat” kind of thing. [caption id="attachment_103395" align

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024