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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... to 7–10). on average, mit students take 54 units each semester."]60 ... students and will keep them on track for graduation.” After the first year

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  . On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... feeling? That’s another discussion.) On some days, I get almost nothing ... , trying to write a blog post. And on these days, I get constantly distracted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  few more minutes. \o/ S.M. '19 It was Pi Day. I was sitting on ... several minutes. When he finally did let go, I saw on my phone a ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... company" Steven Sinofksy = "Blogging words per minute" Barack Obama = I tried my best Kari Byron = “Cheesiness on the pun scale” Tory Belleci

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  perspective on the reading, go on over and visit Ben. Shahab commented with ... those signs on the side of a bank that tells you the time and temperature ... :15pm was 135 minutes in the past. Little did I realize... Anyway, ASU

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  morning and the airport was fairly quiet, being just past sunrise on an ... reality for three whole months, I thought to myself: What on Earth am I ... felt on my first night in Baker; if I recall correctly, neither of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is ... dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  and drifted towards MIT. We touched on admissions (How's Matt? Matt ... pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to ... them and adding unnecessary stress to an already super-stressed MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... , the thing I am ultimately studying, is young enough that depending on ... added to both of them to create two equidecomposable supershapes. In

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... DRobotics IRIS+ Drone, which joined our family early last spring. On its first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  live in an apartment with some EC friends, who all lived on slugfest in ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz is a Putzen. Two or more people who live on Putz are also Putzen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... few notes out. Fail. He would wave play on, like nothing happened, while ... myself on autopilot, and shot my hand in the air. On the occasions that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
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  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... where my college ranks on any of these lists, I'm pretty lucky. In the ... internship in Europe in my field of study by November with minimal effort on my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting ... conversation and then go back to talking about Jersey Shore in the same minute. I ... , schools, groups and so on. If you can find those pieces, you're probably in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
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  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  minutes for him to identify a medication I’ve been on that sometimes causes ... This next week and a half promises to be electrifying. We’re on the ... Tech, the Russian counterpart to MIT, he went out to Moscow on weekends just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
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  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  tongue momentarily went into shock, because after that my mouth was on fire ... up eating his entire pound in under 2 minutes... and I had only finished the first layer of wings on my plate. I gave up then... I do want to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... 's about all I remember. Battle on, Mandelbrot. My friend and labmate Steph

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... weekends ago, I went on a retreat with other people from my floor. I remember walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  gracefully swept (or brutally pummeled, depending on what day of the week it ... around. Yup. Somehow, sitting obnoxiously away from me, on the other side ... fallen off. What was happening? Five minutes left until the flight. My

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013