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  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 ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like ... sent out a survey to the bloggers, asking them what their results were ... my own meta-survey asking people to take surveys, is scientific either

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say farewell to all my friends. I then flew back to Boston on 20th June and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to October. Overnight, the winds would abruptly switch from amihan to habagat, from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive ... not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to perform--he is simply here to be himself. The musicians behind him slow jam

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... can apply to their husbands' underwear.") You get the idea. If you don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• 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.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  to the realization that I had undertaken more than just an ... arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... science and anthropology. I have learned new ways to look at the world and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... residents. It's something I try not to think about when I wear it. Anyway, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... 'll write about the final product soon! (8) Because we get cool toys to play

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up ... . This morning, the official MIT Gangnam Style music video was released to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I ... .   This is nothing but reassuring to me. When I was considering going

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... 't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
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  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire ... [annotation note="I won’t specify which, and I hope that you will never need to ... . At best. I tried to believe that it was a personal problem, but other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020