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

  

  shapes and colors and shadows, and I get to see, in real-time, what the ... like: what's the nicest way to get the names of the winning team? My ... , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I ... .   This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• 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.

  

  .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know ... -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  door, and get a fan to ventilate the whole place unless you want to ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

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

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... Salvador Luria Ivan Getting '33 was a primer developer of GPS Bose ... public-sanitation and environmental chemistry expert and the first woman to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  attention to the class of 2028 and beyond, I want to take a moment —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a time of great uncertainty about the future of affirmative action, and to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  me the final push/panic moment/motivation/etc. to just write and edit ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... sidewalk-less streets before returning to my temporary attic home. It's a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
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  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate on that notion because it remains apropos today as students continue to seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
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  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015