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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... here). This cut my design time in half, so I promptly decided to double ... . :) Like in high school, I was happy to receive course credit for something I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  strike something intimate in everyone. I was hesitant to attend the ... lot of money. I did some calculations in my head. The benefit I'd get ... value to be so high. So, while I was sitting in office hours, I sold the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... could get painting, so I resolved to paint the tree over spring break ... 't get started until winter break. My zeroth step was to clean my door

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  't need to get ready tomorrow morning. So what final details of my freshman ... 's pretty cool to look at a page I created and take pride in its ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in ... to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... value of their memories later in life. It’s led me to incredible

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  to major in course 4 and course 5, respectively. ... I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into ... UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  loved fashion, and in recent years, as other hobbies have fallen to the ... desire to meet cool new people in a virtual semester, led me to apply for a ... photography and grew enough confidence to become a spread lead in the fall for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  will save you money in the longterm. Break the rules to maximize ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  program (ranked #2 in USNWR). This gets a giant "hurray" from me. ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to glass coverslips (yes, we use some high-tech tools in modern cell biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... about life. We played Terraforming Mars in the garage until J had to ... his car to his apartment, enveloped in gentle southern Californian

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  outline that might be colored in one day. It is even more wild to consider ... . I'm going to need all the luck I can get. ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow ... i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... methods to get small amounts of data from very large amounts, while my ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  heuristic get to you. MIT fraternities are very different from fraternities in ... 've gone through Rush enough to get a bid, you probably already know ... I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I ... ! Brother 3: Shut up! Mom: Do I need to get out Emily Post? If I had this ... So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... report on ross gay's poems once, in 21.487, and he actually came here to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025