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Axes of Confusion ????
35. All this effort, and it resulted in barely passing! We both got C
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Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives
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Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.
This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT LeaderShape program. As a student—at MIT… -
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Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general
), Joonho K. '20 (on freshman fall, yay PNR!), Phoebe C. '18 (on junior fall -
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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 plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of backlogged… -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!
!) was cutting out the glass lab footage that Annie C. ‘18 helped us put -
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EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?
hear a buzzing sound. A puff of smoke comes out of the box. Nicholas McC ... DSL that does not exist. Haley C. ‘18 You put on a start-up tee ... your man, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me. Leo de C. ‘18 It is hot -
Blog / Academics & Research
“Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't
your classes, a blank slate in the form of a P that equates a C to an A -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought
at a constant rate C for tourists. Also, keep in mind, Sabrina can walk -
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Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.
-Variable Calculus. If you score a 5 on both Physics C tests, you can get out of 8 -
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Trip Report: ISEF 2016
and Engineering Fair in Washington Michelle C. '20, "Determining the -
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5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)
In my (high-school) senior spring, when I was almost sure I planned to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT–the research and academics are, of course,… -
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Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.
Clockwise from top right: sketch model review, sketch model review (on a real stall), mockup review, final alpha prototype on stage. Top left photo by John Chow. End-of-the-semester class… -
Blog / Admissions
What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.
During my college application season, the adults around me (in addition to books like 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, which I would not recommend reading) gave a lot of advice… -
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(An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.
This past Friday was the MIT career fair, a huge event where hundreds of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice rink, a… -
Blog / Admissions
Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.
description: The display was the work of Jayne C. '16. Last year, one of my -
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Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.
Boltíànskiĭ’s 1978 Hilbert’s Third Problem: If two figures A and C are each equidecomposable with a third figure B, then A and C are also equidecomposable with ... ) required. This problem was posed by C.F. Gauss. In a letter in 1844, Gauss -
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Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT
. See you again soon, hopefully not in a month. c: As always, I am -
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I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around
was the question I chose to respond to: 12c) Tell us about the most -
Blog / MIT Life
Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.
time in Harbin (low: -30ºC) was cold, er, frostbitten. But well worth it