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  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  . Surrealist short story that messes with time. It's worth dissecting this piece to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from ... there for one. In fact, he has finished it. Perhaps he’ll have a second

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  temperatures you see are how it actually feels. Compared to seeing 23F on the ... newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of longing for lessons past” way. I discovered 5 classes like that junior year

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  develops an appreciation for your teachers when you realize how hard it is ... 27,960 miles flown. $0 spent (by me). How? Through purely anecdotal ... program or grant to get you there. And it’s not just study abroad: there

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  . Yes you will, kiddo. You’ll also get over it really fast. I guess it ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... that I was shocked. It’s something you really have to experience to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  student holiday on Friday so people can focus on finding employment. It’s ... Friday!   It’s even crazier if you’re a first-semester freshman and you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  .   (You'd be surprised how many people want to lick our airplane. It's pretty sexy.) What, you might ask, is DBF? DBF is exactly what its name ... -control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  what it is, but it definitely says Bad Ideas on it and it advertises Bad ... event, and "How Many Feet Can You Eat" Subway eating event.  But I still ... to study for my physics final Monday. But then it was Saturday. And

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  be wondering how the night of the ring delivery unfolded. It went ... Avengers that weekend. Do you know how cool it is to hear Tony Stark rattle ... : Such class! But back to the ring. More than anything, it's proof that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  matters considerably. It was family meeting time, and I realized how brash ... I have an interesting MIT “story.” It wasn't my first choice school ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would be MIT. It's so obvious but up until today I've ignored this awesome resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part ... hoping its selection somehow involved science, since I pipette things all the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  - national grass-roots efforts. It's about how people from all over the country ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading ... political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  [/annotation] and also confused about how it would work logistically. Memes ensued ... big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... sharing it with me[/caption] I actually already had an iPad, so I was

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  . Also I made this graph. And if it’s in a graph, it must be true. In ... bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... with finding what you need when you need it. Images can be difficult to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  quicker and go to sleep? and I’m just like, yo, mom, that’s not how it ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it’s ... -nighter. Since I knew it was going to happen, I brought along my camera to document

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  about Mystery Hunt is how, in some senses, it is a microcosm of MIT ... synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

   Let's get right to it. What went into making this year's Pi Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back ... [annotation note="Emily '22: everyone should go watch this bread animation its

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  how much more relaxed Porter is, and it’s only a 10-minute ride on the ... , which I will not link here. The reason it's so disturbing is beause it ... did have it easier than some of the bald fans). I also got a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018