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• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  automated emails sometimes about how long its been since we last blog, and ... does it make sense when you say you have ‘nothing to wear’. Sometimes it’s ... all have the same amount of time and get to choose how we spend it. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  rimmed or coupe? Does it have any cutlery marks that can be seen under ... most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  't really decided whether I'm proud of this or not, but it does answer your ... score, no matter how high it is, is not enough to get you into MIT ... something like that). This year, it's Worst Case Scenarios, those little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  . Do you know how long it's gonna be before you actually have to deal ... three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who ... on average? How much does a character tend to say? What does this say

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  we got it done. Seeing how my classmates in the GEL program have done ... , and though MIT often does that, it was most certainly a pleasant ... my interview with my MIT EC. And I loved how Mystery Hunt was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  , and that I needed some form of exercise that wasn't just long walks with ... first rodeo with running. I was slightly above average at it and generally enjoyed it because most of my friends were in it as well. One of my most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  myself here again on purpose. My brain does not know that it is possible to ... science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  exploited, how do you actively combat that? How does this war of feelings ... Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddartha Mukherjee (nf) This Is How You ... !! should!!! read!!! this book!!! Everyone!! Check it out now!!!!!! iT’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  audience to yell “LSC sucks!” in the rare event that it does happen (speaking ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn ... new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  beaten down by the stress of it all. And, there are some cool perks. How ... Con had closed door discussions about the logistics of it all: how could ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  bundled with Helvetica, but it does come with Arial. In fact, if you can ... fonts How do you identify a font? It helps if you've seen it before. This ... to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  ... and then we immediately realized how immensely useful it is. Now, we use ... : I am informed that "literally everyone else" does it the other way. Me, I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  "]forgot[/annotation] how hard this was until I had to go through it again. Writing is hard ... three times in my life. It’s a pop-science book about how scientists ... it strategy-proof, how “good” it is compared to alternatives (on bases

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’m ready. Let’s see how it goes. ... start five minutes past the hour."]late[/annotation]anymore, and I know it’s ... semester. In some ways, MIT is close. In other ways it feels distant, like a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  ?   4. Does a snowman need to have 3 snowball parts for it to be a real ... ? How much can it? ... few weeks ago it looked nice... On Saturday there was significantly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... Vegas). This flight is 6 hours long, but for the past 6 hours, I’ve been ... goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  forgivable given the rate and quality of writing. “It doesn’t matter how ... to the 2016 film Arrival. It has long been said that air (which others ... . Despite being written in 1988, large parts of it still describe how Kerberos

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  , where it’s just long enough to be stubbly, but too short to hurt your ... particular: “I’m not sure how much I wanted it before he actually started doing ... realized. ← How can I be more generous with myself? It’s been difficult for

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  doubt the power of the weather machine, but I assure you it's real! How does it work? Magic! Like a lot of things here. So what events should ... know what that means right? RIGHT? That's right, it means you guys will

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour-long ... "]                                    featuring me holding the pencil weird because that's how I hold it when I ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018