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  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... would cringe seeing this post), but I find it fun to read an analysis of ... reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... would have if I had just done it now. Other times I try scare tactics and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... draining pathways of dating in college, I want you to know what I wish I, and ... very different from high school. In this regard, I am from a very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... going to do. I was going to dive in head first, I was going to take the ... that with me into college. I wasn't particularly well liked in high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  even in all the dorms at MIT. Yeah, I said it. BURTON 1 FREAKIN' ROCKS ... than just dorms in a hall, and also I totally just ruined the joke by ... freshmen, without whom I would not have passed 18.03. ...at least, I think I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors ... hectic, but I had complete faith in the paper getting written in time, as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... interested in it… in theory. In practice, I spent two months working on the ... I liked doing than disliked doing. In one sense, that's a good thing

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

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  together, and would arrive later that night. I showed Charles, who was in ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams ... field two in-person meetups: one in Boston, and one in the Bay. I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... about their travels, I thought I would add a few comments from my trip

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  using his own intelligence and sweat of his brow. I would love for that to ... clueless, and much more interested in the actor making a cameo (I won't ... opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  finished. I remember little of this now except a 12-hour rush in the ground ... CAD. In fact we finished the CAD. I left thinking that while the ... break, Erin and I came in every day and pounded out code until the motors

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , I felt somewhat reassured once more that I was in the right department ... -percent-Asian high school would express a similar sentiment. I know that I have close

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I ... .72 Vision in Art and Neuroscience. The last one is sort of the reason why I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... . One original recipe I mangled to come up with mine. It would probably be ... again in the evening. I like oatmeal. You can add walnuts and bananas and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  Head of House swipes us in and we grab food. I thought it would be a ... 's supposed to start getting actually warm in a few days, which I hope comes ... would go with the latter, but since there's only a few days left in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Reaccs I didn't send that many messages in most of these chats. However, I ... much between chats. I was a lot more active in some chats than others ... felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  Solutions In “Why is There No Water”, I’d highlighted some key qualitative ... . That success would motivate further hand-dug well projects in the region ... future sources are built in the next few years, this would need to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018