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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of ... intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• 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.

  

  before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and 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

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

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  can’t imagine me ever being unable to force myself out of bed in the ... tablecloths, or no tablecloths at all – but I can’t be sure. After you come back ... is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  this is all (mostly) relevant.  PA: Outside of my room in Next House, I ... email is now in your inbox. Can I collude with other people? Well, I mean ... games in quarantine what if i do them with all of campus whitney: ok

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• 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 ... [annotation note="oof again I can't really specify what this was because of the ... on repeat for choreographing is probably why I’m in the top 0.005% of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• 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 Future Is Grim check it out

  

  -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... itself which was a non-trivial part of my grade. I sent Prof. Grimson an ... deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• 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 communities, I often am asked something along the lines of the following

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I ... identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... in a highly selective college admissions process. Instinctively, I knew

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student ... ) expressly forbid taking pictures. So, I decided to take pictures of part of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  'm pretty sure I can distinctly hear Max in that cacophony of noise ... a shoddy way in front of 3300 people. I think the results are well ... in 5 minutes.   Each team of 20 students gets a budget of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and ... ’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would ... decisions came out. I could get 1 bar of wifi on my phone in one corner of the ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  generally go higher the further they are from Building 10. In front of ... , 51, and 57, and in practice you can ignore 51 and 57 because no one ... . Building 32, in particular, is more often called Stata; it’s one of MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• 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?!

  

  Special Collections. A map of the 1924 campus layout can be found in ... manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in ... you're into. Pick another class in one of these three categories

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• 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 ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

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

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  beginning of the academic year, as the Philippine school year starts in June ... rain, at least, not that I know of. I remember the first time I experience this kind of rain, I had this mental disconnect. Any moment, I felt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021