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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a wrap up entry that showed the end result of MIT's poll-bombing. Fast ... of 31 colleges and you could vote for yours. Whichever college had the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... when making your decision. Ask if the floors or lounges of the dorm ... of upperclassmen to help you, but you can also avoid the learning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  's true for biology is pretty true for all of the natural sciences). First ... I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... 're like in the lab. This is a pretty important part of the package, since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... crust.  The two things this semester that I put most of my energy towards ... journals, computer scientists tend to submit to conferences because of the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  whether to share it with the rest of you guys, but I thought that this ... midafternoon lunch rush. "wassgood?" A familiar question snapped me out of the monotony of my day and brought me face to face with the cashier. "you good

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists ... here, I was pretty far along the science extreme. I'd done plenty of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we are Habesha”. “Habesha” is a term that refers to the ethnic group of ... two types of first-generation children. The first kind didn’t appreciate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  freshman you, preserving five of those lessons in a blog post that the world ... simply hit the limit of my intelligence? Was this as good as it could get ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... Alright, story time. Since the beginning of spring semester, I’ve been so ... ’ve helped run lots of events: the Filipino Students Association was supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty ... deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was ... the car after this parenthetical ends?) One of the things that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... reigning champion of the visual speed game SET, constantly ‘challenging’ people, knowing that I would win. But as I moved up in the hierarchy of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and ... gave him a job before he could even drive. It makes me think of the girl

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... other than that of the dried wood pulp from which it had once been

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self ... big deal). Basically: academic failure is not the end of the world, even ... graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... . Lulu was one of my TAs - I almost swooned when I made the connection that ... ; it had the advantage of feeling like a friend I'd grown up with. If the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  little bit of time every day to have to yourself—the unsatisfying answer is that it depends on the person. many of my friends never experienced a ... into MIT. but i think the trick is to define what the "life" part of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006