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  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice ... . And then I check answers with other students and offer and receive help

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• 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?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... universe has reasserted itself. A particular small goose is fed fois gras for

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  Missouri, a southern state university, Yale, a new england private university ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... United States is arguably becoming worse than it has been in recent years

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  to your peers. Everyone at MIT has something to offer (you do too ... your major when you have a diploma in hand. Tattoos and piercings are ... receive my MIT diploma. -Yul

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... stayed in that mental state for months, or even years. Their warm presence

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  , for instance, that chocolate has six crystalline states and that heating ... Francisco-based chocolate manufacturer TCHO, for example, uses a flavor wheel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... collections of valuable artworks by El Greco and Francisco Goya! Seeing the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... two houses offered to fraternities for residency. For a while, this ... passed down from the MIT Treasurer stating that the Institute simply could

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

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  fraternity is Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University. In the ... universities, namely Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA), Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ... have that compared to the other HBCUs and universities she was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• 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.

  

  research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G ... decompositions. The pearl lemma states that we can place the same positive number ... has twelve. Bricard’s condition states that, looking at two three

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

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  Astronomy (with Anna Frebel, who studies the early universe, works on discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing ... economics degrees done that i missed out on finding my true calling, which, of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  said "And now, the President of the United States, Barack Obama!" (not an ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... to be in the same room as the President of the United States. There was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually ... their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... doors with a significantly higher degree of ease. And part of that has to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  like to mentally split my workload into “steady-state” and “anomalous” categories. Steady-state work is recurring and regular: things like lectures ... in the steady-state category. Assignments are pushed and flushed from

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... article ranking the top 50 world universities. They had us at #7, behind ... considerable challenge at other universities. I've never, ever been very

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

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  simply goes from one predetermined state to another. An NFA, in one sense, does: it has options on which state to move to, and it could move between states even if there was no input. Does this make its behavior

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  , in the comments section. Not the same few colleges: Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. I visited here for the first time this summer, and I

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

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  every state. Make friends with people outside of your living group. Sure ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  internship at Rutgers University, for which I pretty much functioned as a data ... , comparative government..) that weren’t offered in our limited curriculum. I self ... touched upon by anything in her high school’s class offerings, but who

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015