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  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a ... usual. But to my surprise, because he tends to play with his food before ... decided to dissect it. [caption id="attachment_92032" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  [caption id="attachment_55153" align="aligncenter" width="300"] a ... socials, would also occur at 22 minutes past the hour. [caption id ... get to know better). [caption id="attachment_55158" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other ... message to my dorm’s email list.  [caption id="attachment_57263" align ... _hidden]Subject: [Next Forum Games] Let's play a game :D Game 1: guess a number between 1

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  checking in on this account. Anyway, I think I have a bit of a unique ... fellow students encounter. If I could set up a wavy-fade flashback, I'd ... that, I had tested out of the freshman calculus and physics classes

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  myself, I’d be in jail” (from “Girl Named Hello” by of Montreal ... . How to do growth accounting Learned this in 14.05, the intermediate ... do remember that growth accounting is a way to decompose an economy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  past few weeks about how terribly hosed people are, I thought I'd bring ... applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the environment!). (Btw, I find it funny that in Ben's original post, he wrote

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

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , I made a separate Instagram account to serve two dozen followers split ... account is themed around the proteins in gluten, which make me irreparably and violently ill upon ingestion. I use the account to share things that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. Or, in the ball pit in ... the very least, I learned how to be a better friend. Play fair. Five

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  are talking about it. I’d never heard of Avatar [annotation note=" or I ... mostly a product of his environment and upbringing, he still, at the very ... episodes that stuck with me now that some time had passed since I’d finished

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most ... , fails to admit a lot of additional external factors which could be at play ... all my assignments, finished all my tests, and ended up doing well in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  , invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their ... (Simmons|purple)  =  Pr(purple|Simmons) Pr(Simmons) Pr(purple) Simmons accounts for 10 ... : Settings, then Accounts, then Other Google account settings, then Data tools

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  testing the limits of paper folding and the aerodynamics of folded paper. A ... . (Later they tell me that they had been playing spoons with giant bowling ... lie when your lies are 8.25 by 11.75 inches. Jack Johnson plays in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  MIT account and sign up by April 2nd. For those that haven't decided yet, come! It'll be loads of fun, I promise. I thought I'd take a break from ... Report"-esque gadget, which she demos and describes in the video. Check it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  baseball players ask for autographs from the people they're playing against ... ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots ... did, let them pass it around (almost gave them a demo), and eventually

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  OF FALL SEMESTER? I wish I'd taken the freaking swim test the moment I ... asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... wish I'd thought of every class block as a precious commodity. I have two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . It's a unique opportunity to put our engineering skills to the test and ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I'd ... device, which was mostly PVC and a lot of fittings. We had some fun playing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  thought I’d be a good fit and if I should apply. For every single email that ... ErY*~ nuanced thoughts on standardized testing (I hate it), but tl;dr: Most Ph ... tests), so just learn how to solve them the quick way. Do a few practice

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a ... down. I’d watched a number of [annotation note="pretty much what it ... Walmart parking lot. I’d gone running on a hiking trail and found a gym that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , Jeff brought our demo rings for us to wear and to keep for the next 2 ... , eat, and actually talk with each other in a non-meeting environment! A

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape ... environment, the humanities, economics, psychology, political science ... addition to the SAT, MIT required three Achievement Tests (ACH), renamed SAT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022