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  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... icosahedron! And this turns out to be too complicated to allow for a quintic

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  to have tiny Santas). The recipe says to bake for an hour, but in ... you are for whatever reason someday required to secretly make them and ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see ... Insta page for everyone to see. [carousel image1="77025" image2 ... 't know what to put that day, but I was surprised by how much personality

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  for the space ship to explore the Solar system in 30 years if it is ... and quirky people you will ever know- yes. For learning how to live a ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  , but team size is 15-18 students rather than 2 for 2.09. Near to 2 ... have enough real ones to make up for it. The Bay Area is pretty conducive ... even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . ;-) And to the person who suggested the RSS feed for my blog - fantastic ... Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your ... stopped arguing about trivial things, folks started to look for the good in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  same applied for 7.013 in the spring. Alright - to be honest - it isn ... knowing how to swim. For the math requirement, please refer to This ... important for you to get your Calc GIR out of the way as soon as possible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... , wonder and sleep deprivation that MIT students come to embrace. I don

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  LMC (Live Music Connection). To be brief, the MIT LMC is basically a ... website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like ... (Live)) . In addition to talking about MIT LMC, Kevin also gives his

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress ... some reflection, I've come up with three reasons why it is hard for me to ... . According to my own personal [annotation note="p a t h o l o g y

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel free to invite their friends and classmates. This year, we cooked for ... stuffing than I care to count. Personally, this is also my favorite night of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  own person and that I have to take care of myself and I have to make ... am discovering who I am and building the person I want to be. I am ... decorate my room? Does this person like me (the person can be referring to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  [/annotation]are harder to motivate for oneself when there is no clear rewarding outcome. It ... spread out), it's common for either you or your partner to be ousted from the social group and it can become hard to turn to the circle for help

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone ... for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... influential that he's said he might actually have to stop blogging in the future

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  understanding the concept on the first try. Don’t ask the person sitting next to you to clarify what’s on the board; they’ll ridicule you for poor eye sight and tendency to zone out. Don’t ask for clarification in an

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of ... to accelerate this strategy is for me to carry my camera around far ... IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve ... . Hepburn’s recipe in the midst of some online meandering, and decided to give ... to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... Guth." Is it ever appropriate to address A Famous Person by first name ... more about them, and he offered to hold an entire extra session for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  about what I needed to do next for my physical and mental health. Nearly ... , [annotation note="Note: here I mean the time I took off for an in-person ... simply an in-person inpatient hospitalization that lasted for a week, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022