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

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the ... with units is great, but what I really enjoyed, and still enjoy, is ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of 85 degrees. 12 wheels grip plywood from three directions, binding car

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  amazing (and actually I'm not sure it would have been possible even if I did happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... , less frustrating, and more fun. But I don't know that many people in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  ?! And my response is yes, there was definitely some degree of novelty to ... pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... [annotation note="Kessler, Ronald C, and Evelyn J Bromet. “The epidemiology of ... jacky is claiming that MIT food is bad therefore people in MIT are sad and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  university classes, making university friends, and writing university finals. I ... end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... , nothing – and on the fifth day, my drive, which had been in sleep mode, woke

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair of sweatpants I'll wear exactly once. I'll board a yellow schoolbus and try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
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  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  succeed in high school, and depart for universities around the country and ... don't get cellphone signal here? GPS doesn't know where it is, and ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a ... from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... students, affectionately known as the Z']Zesiger Center[/annotation] and [annotation note='another institute gym, located on campus proper']Wang Fitness

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting opposite me, resting on his elbow and playing Words With Friends. He ... asked him whether "Cloudy Apple" is good, and Davie's response was "it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and copious amounts of work. Some hobbies didn’t stick (trampoline dodgeball and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate ... creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things, and many more, simultaneously. As such, the very idea that one can

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  my generally distracted state. When dead week rolled around and I had ... first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically wrote flashcards for myself and tried to teach myself course material I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
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  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  everything we pushed aside and really feel it again. On and off, I’ve tried ... result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... blurred away as I get older and time goes on. What did she think about on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... this post so late? I was busy, okay."]November 23 and 24,[/annotation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  fun events and, in that process, see all that we have to offer ... ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... smoke fills the room and the cook always ends up coughing and crying

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023