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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise ... players chose to place a large portion of their points in one or two ... is to be a free rider and not put in anything—bar the punishment, of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  room hoping to find something to occupy my parading thoughts. A binder ... her I would find a cure to cancer. My binder was that promise. A promise ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview ... to have another reason to visit.   Every Thursday I have a check-in ... cheddar soup in a breadbowl #goodlifechoices 7:47pm walk to Suffolk

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  = "useful connections made in a day" ... to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... in a kind of fear you didn't even notice, it's hard to let things go. I ... other hand— Does a fish know it's in water? I also remember going to a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  drawing me back to a cycle of self-blame, taking root in my head and placing ... most of the work I had to do, putting myself in a pretty good spot when ... following it. Even in a perfect world where I do conform to the rules of my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  out of MIT in January 2020, but had never really felt it to such a ... essentially used this free time to really find my stride socially -- I made ... group. I was also just falling back in love with things I used to do, like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  submitted a "rebuttal column" in response to this column posted in the Tech ... yourself a ticket to one of the best medical schools in the country ... so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  criteria that will be used to make the decision. Fortunately, everything that I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Kiyoe."]where I can find a gym.[/annotation] In March, when everything ... -raising to help you out in a time of need. I'm endlessly grateful to them for ... polycarbonate roof to keep the worst of the snow and ice off the platform. In a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  follow the same logic to find that the system in three variables has a ... triangles can always be further distributed in discrete chunks to form a ... piece A—to the square S in order to create a supershape M. We can add the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came ... end in itself, but a means by which to build a better world, and I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  Ikea (Next House had a one-day bus trip to Ikea in the fall, but as far ... clusters, but you can't use that to Facebo- I mean, take notes, in class. I ... what you should wait to buy in Cambridge? Who comes from far away and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... start a dance party anywhere, any time. I fell in love and drove to the ... . MIT honestly paid my friend to go spend a month in Mongolia learning how

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... Khan, who used to live in the room of bloggers Danny and Allan? Where are ... lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in ... of verbal problems in a format identical to the SAT exam.” Half of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... in around a week.  The problem seems to be that we're running ... ;The quick hack is to add a complete Arduino, which has a power regulator, in

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... , and in some cases protect, the voices of these students who have to use discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... wood panels lined the walls, a grand desk stood proudly in front of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  used the name to drive the demon out. The process is a whole story in ... that way to me. There's a Quora answer that describes anosmia in ... people don't suddenly lose interest in activities they used to enjoy, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021