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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  'll hold the rest for the second edition of The Unofficial Guide to ... of mentioning this to a dinner table-ful of MIT students, who crisply ... Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  . I came to experience several things for the first time. These are some ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... ’d never stayed up for more than twenty four hours, not to my recollection

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  was to get service hours to qualify for National Honor Society come our ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in ... hard learning things I wanted to and leave Algebra II studying for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  that there are always tons of opportunities to apply what you know while ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... something for our client. We met with our client a couple times to try and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... work until the next time you have to kick your brain on for some project

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  , prompting inquiries into “differing cultural values” to account for the ... female identity scored an average of 3.86 on the exercise, compared to the ... asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... level used their platforms to advocate for others and to make sure as many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... have had tons of great opportunities to pursue this interest through MIT ... "Deadliest Catch," so I think I am going to settle for going to vet school

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  night, and the ton of missed work I had to deal with afterwards, but man ... days, you need two or three or five blankets and to lie on the couch for ... Afeefah for being able to make the leap!) This can be super hard -- like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  tons of events throughout the year to connect students and grow together ... worship team for this event and practiced for like 20 hours leading up to ... students even come from their college to MIT regularly to join us for Cru

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  . One of my best friends Ami G. ‘14 is out to find yellow paint for the ... baconstrips (and baconstrips and baconstrips) for you to shove down your food ... can curry favor by having all the expansions for Race to the Galaxy. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning 6.042 Mathematics for ... felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the ... fretting about the costs of mundane items like toilet paper, for example. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list ... good for myself, because otherwise I'll have to deal with something I ... I wanted to play with friends. Making something useful for others is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... constantly. I can never seem to hold onto one for very long, though this is the ... melt a plat for me, I’ve got to bring my own. Charging Cable Nest - I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  post apply to all applicants, so have fun reading and don't come for me ... process is tough for everyone and its hard for anyone to get through it ... going to be really hard for you leos, but where your friends (or

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  again Is it better to go to MIT for undergrad or grad school? Important ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the ... other way around for life sciences PhD programs). I applied to mostly bio

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  total approximately equal to 2^11.514. Just for clarity, these cookies ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt ... to bake desserts for birthdays and other special days! The cookies were

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019