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  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  obvious mountains to climb. I can walk in any direction, or switch ... everything seems to be telling me that I’ll get farther, wherever I’m going, if ... few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I ... bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and engineers in my life, but he was my favorite; his influence on my life, the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... get caught up in the immediacy of the next exam or the seeming all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  holes. Get ready to get lost in the sauce with the Sauce Boss! 13 ... home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick ... missed. We’re furiously unpacking the dorm and getting excited to see you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... now—it's easy to forget that this kind of thing isn't really normal in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the ... to hold their class materials. Professors: Three women in the video ... in her life (getting a job, graduate school, and marriage) occurred in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... medalist, who also happened to get an 800! The same goes for people who are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• 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 ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  know what you’re doing this summer? Do you still plan to live in EC in ... realized that I would never again get a chance to show all of you my room, so ... to the person staffing it, and say what we wanted. It was nice getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  little happiness, and little to look forward to; no hope remains. In this ... chocolate chips, in addition to a ton of baking powder, baking soda, salt ... , in this case, a person) takes to process a given input (such as

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to ... understand what makes them who they are, and why. Getting to know their

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... , it's not going to get any easier. This semester, the key was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  without making things and actively trying to get better. I made a class ... to the B-Entry lounge in MacGregor to film with some cow livers, and ... opposed to every other lab in campus, which have busy grad students working

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair ... refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  rush job to get it together before we left. Coupled with some array ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep ... of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  "The Smiths." No one needs to see that in the background of my Zoom call. I am on the couch in the living room right next to the wi-fi router ... little hazard sign pops up next to the four wi-fi bars in the bottom

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  , but because in their worlds, they never have to practice that ability ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... . Yale in particular was shocking to me--more personal to me than the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  activities I could only dream of — I was overwhelmed trying to find my place in ... grow, to believe in myself, to fail and learn from it because I Truly ... !!!!!! In my last semester at MIT, I have finally learned to love myself and I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018