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• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October ... : Could be a challenge if you don't know any other places that aren't ... that doesn't mean that we can't buzz about it. Pro: When the champion of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This ... . It was my introduction to writing that wasn’t the five paragraph ... difficult to find the time to write though. This isn’t an anomaly, it’s hard

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  , barring strange web3 schemes that try to tokenize people, individuals don’t ... isn’t well-defined, and even if, like some unicorn companies, there isn’t ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well ... , normally consists of 4-5 songs"]set[/annotation] terrified me, so I didn't ... recruited weren't able to train or grow much as dancers since, well, they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  am employed this year, in an industry that wasn't absolutely devastated ... in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn't ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUAT_xZiqI[/embed] Last year I hosted a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to ... again. I spent a lot of my high school life trying to act tough -- a don't

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... the need to redefine myself? I don’t know where I had read this, but ... order to satisfy my identity as a shy-smart-nerdy-pants-girl. I truly don’t

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  don't verify they will receive their decision!   Don't listen to evil Kermit. It doesn't matter how many times you click that refresh button, it won't make the decisions happen any faster...    

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To ... should probably go to math.stackexchange.com) I don't feel

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  spending a year at Cambridge taking amazing classes that didn't fulfill ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with ... if you're prospective MIT students, shouldn't you have

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of downtime before school and college application season begins. I don’t know ... to a friend that I wasn’t able to lose any weight. I think he was sick

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  (like myself) who don’t know anyone participating, there’s quite the ... on the T, it took 45 minutes to go (compared to the usual twenty ... , although it was quite clear they couldn’t make the food fast enough to keep

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it ... Facebook didn't suck - where was I - ah yes - in the old days, when I was in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  said country, which in my case would be Germany. Too bad I don't know ... .' Google Translate, I love you. (Edit: Actually, I don't. Considering the ... Harry Potter books, and playing frisbee pretty much every day - haven't

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  house or book store. It’s not a test, and your EC won’t throw a Rubik ... MIT account. You don’t need to finish the application before setting up, or even ... have asked them, haven’t you?), our ECs can be busy. Getting in touch

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don't ... consequently starting several blogs I haven't finished) I've been working on some ... Multivariable Calculus before I took the final (true story, don't ask, don't do it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  you're dead set on having a desktop and wouldn't work with anything less, then you won't be at a huge disadvantage with a desktop, but it ... didn't love it. A little less than half the computers I see on campus are

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  going on, and I don't remember getting much sleep whether it was checking ... questions, and if you aren't satisfied with the answer, ask someone else. Rule ... everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily ... -2 and 8-2 don’t exactly line up, or that most floors of 11 are awkwardly ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn't ... the Thevenin circuit doesn't. So the Norton circuit must be warmer than ... they are IDEAL current/voltage sources. As such, they aren't generating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006