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  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it’s

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... computer was my dad’s old Dell, which ran Windows XP. The system gets slower ... follows me everywhere. It’s pretty. It’s light. It might even be beautiful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• 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 ... topic was Dijkstra’s algorithm for finding shortest paths, my second topic ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven-Year-Old Ana, Hello! It’s me~ Hm, actually, maybe I should introduce myself. Let’s

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... Student Luncheon happens every Reg Day. It’s organized by Laura Maxim of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him Professor Dumbledore, and let’s call the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  forget things sometimes. The information is all in his pensieve(s), anyway ... TOO!!!!!"s and one very embarrassing (WHY DID I SAY THIS???) "OH MY GOD

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I’m in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I’d take a quick break to tell you a little…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I’ve been working on my grad school apps lately, when I’m not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college applications, including your…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she’s ... years thinking about THAT?!” (That’s fair.) But I’ve been amazed and surprised by the fractal nature of life -- there’s the world in all its

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  Tony Stark’s place as the new Iron (wo)Man.     Art from the Iron ... meetings after that first one. He had worked with Loren S. ‘17 in the past for last year’s bb8 droid video and the previous year’s drone video, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  hat. Others took turns playing Mozart’s Turkish March and the Mario ... . This is the spirit of preview weekend. It’s the spirit of MIT. But is it ... -frosh actually believe that it’s going to be as fun and happy as that weekend, but

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to ... took detailed notes on a completely random person’s dramatic conversation ... listen to a stranger’s conversation? Our professor, Shariann Lewitt, tells

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a meter! Since MIT.nano’s inception, researchers have used the space for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Grand Poobah and which preceded Stephen Colbert’s super PAC army). I met ... MIT’s second dorm, East Campus, and the inauguration of the hacking ... . In MIT’s early decades, the fledgling Institute lacked both space and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he’s ... problems as I have. It seems, by default, that I think other people’s ... that’s what bothers me. It bothers me because it makes my problems feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly ... backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so it’s actually ... have learned this past year: 1. What machine learning is And what it’s

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there’s ... . Yeah. We’ve all been there. Whether it’s a college application or a job ... next year’s class, the huge far-more-collaborative milli

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s ... everything? And to then pursue everything all at once? MIT’s answer was yeah, kid! go ahead and pursue it all, and see what happens. Here’s what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014