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  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  really sure why I'm writing in pink -- Liz and Meghan asked me to do it ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  . At most institutions, campus construction would be mentioned in the ... wood in the walls. Few institutions would even bother to share these ... impressive recreational work it brought forth would remain in the institutional

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... catalog was published” and “today” means “today, in 2021”. I won't be ... or so would be in class, so around 230 hours of lectures. Meanwhile

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  this. They can't do it for all of the reasons I mentioned in the CC ... likelihood of acceptance. I'm sure the AdmissionSplash people are only trying to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What’s my purpose in life? What ... sensation in my . . . my . . . well, I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... in the works that would include faculty talks from MIT’s cast of ... society.  She also wants to be involved in students’ lives. I don’t think

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• 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 ... striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of ... interests I have tended to focus on MIT's leadership in artificial

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

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  , not the Claymation videos.) The only similar event I can recall would be ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... (you were always on time, weren't you?)(That's okay, I wasn't). In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... . When I'm on the road, or in an information session, or online in various ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

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

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  get creative with scaling i guess, but that would change their position ... of a Spice Theorem I've been following, with a little help from, in my ... waste when I have a ton of veggies starting to go bad in my fridge. Maybe

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  nasty habit to talk in absolutes. I'm guilty of this to. They say things ... we are trying something new! if you'd like to consume this blog in ... and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... Faneuil Hall in the winter.    Boston Harbor I saw the ocean for the first ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , but I discovered that my brain works much better in emergency conditions ... still tell my friends about that conversation. I can still use it in ... ’t get stuck in the bubble, please. I learned the hard way that MIT is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I ... formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... have UBER simplified some genetics concepts in this explanation. I want ... Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016