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

  

  of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given

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

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

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  of mind to talk about why I was interested in Foobar University. Oh ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... through MIT. I've destroyed and created things because of MIT. My entire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own ... something of an occupational hazard, like being bleary-eyed, or having a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... below, where I've copied the basic gist of the entry: So, some context ... . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

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

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

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

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• 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…

  

  days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... scent of carnage spread over all of dorm row, until all of West Campus

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

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  thousand of you have applied. You’ve poured hours and hours into your ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Specimen ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related ... to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... 't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... , terminating both his life and my dreams of graduating (as well as my reputation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023