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  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  too. Tonight I didn't have any "p-sets" (MIT slang for "problem sets ... looks so darn happy doing it! I felt giddy. I didn't get a picture of it with my camera phone because the resolution wasn't good enough to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Okay, so tonight we were at Allison's house and I didn't take any ... and she won't admit unrepentant thieves to MIT. So, anyway, we wanted ... all my friends are Jewish. Then we decided to watch Hero instead. I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  cats and which floors are smoking floors in EC (EC's webpage doesn't seem ... "smoking" doesn't mean that you'll be submerged in clouds of smoke. People ... living group doesn't mean you can't visit other people at other places

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  , My Front Porch Looking In. Yes, the first one is country! Country isn't ... don't try to karaoke this one, unless you really can hit those high notes. Even JBJ himself can't do it anymore. 0x6. Cherry Filter, [I can't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... on Reddit that had a lot of really good questions about 6-3 that I didn't realize wasn't common knowledge becase I'd been exposed to 6-3 for so long

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  t-shirt. Photos of Paterno, the football team, and Beaver Stadium ... he didn’t want to move away someday. He told me that there’s a feeling ... never want to be without it.     I don’t think I ever

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  requirement. I'm scared that I won't get into a good college because I don't ... experiments and things. Since the Intel class is offered to freshmans and I wasn't ... , your context was that the research class wasn't a possibility for you. So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Here goes another Omnibus... sorry if I didn't get to your question ... Admissions Officers", but I haven't gotten around to everybody yet ... don't have to, but I just wanted to clear the matter up since the Online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  could’ve taken the bus, but I didn’t want to drag my luggage all over the ... gassy (shh don’t tell anyone else) as I waited for my baggage. I glanced ... ="attachment_116260" align="aligncenter" width="600"] PADDINGTON! I haven't seen the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  helloooooooo blogosphere! so i wasn't planning on posting this week ... recognizing that change will always happen. i think i didn't use to always ... many of y'all aren't there). i do find a very, very deep personal joy in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  thing and don’t believe the distinction is important, but pick whichever ... couldn’t work for more than a few minutes at a time without getting ... it was a cost-cutting move and that i didn’t like remote school and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  distnction doesn’t matter here. And third, xkcd 1475.']fonts ... Service Center logo also uses Flama. Yet this poster isn't in Flama! Observe ... ="aligncenter" width="1086"] Left: Flama. Right: poster.[/caption] It also isn't FF DIN

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... providing more clarity. I don’t think I’ve done it enough times to yet have ... else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  experience the phenomenon of feeling like you can’t change your mind again ... i wrote about every time i had a major update and felt like i wasn’t ... those things aren’t what you need right now and as a result you are never

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  structured badly or not good introductory subjects or shouldn’t be required - but when you declare that an entire field like biology is dumb i can’t ... don’t care about knowing what happens in your own body; you must just

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a ... then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... taking a class with them, and if they don’t have any positions open, they

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  friend, Tiffany T. '22. I didn't really know much about it and wasn't all ... was a really chill interview and I'm glad I didn't chicken out. About ... -style format. Mentors just didn't step in as much during these sessions. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  responses in one document so someone can read it. MIT is stressful and I don't know if I should go because of this. I don't know if I'm smart enough for ... in the world, but that doesn't necessarily mean these next four years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  Let me preface this post by saying: I don't think I've figured out ... student as time has gone on, but I definitely haven't gamed the system yet ... 'm ecstatic about, because I didn't particularly enjoy many of the required

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... out. In years past, when I wasn't working, I'd spend my summers ... things to do even when you don't technically have things to do. I'd written

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019