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• 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.

  

  reflected that Poincar´e, with whom Klein had a (mental breakdown inducing ... upon the method of exhaustion, i.e., in modern phraseology, upon the

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

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , followed by W or E for West and East. I know that Baker, East Campus, Mc

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  a beautiful summer day in Boston I stayed in Boston last summer. For MIT students who stay in the Boston area over the summer, there are three main housing options…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  down at Terminal E instead of Terminal A because I didn’t realize my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  been able to prove my technical chops (i.e. a few publications under my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  understand economies at scale — i.e., exactly the kind of work I’d be doing at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  interviewed Chris E. '21 and Alex H., Florida State '21, and they were teaching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  now M11 Calculus and M12 Calculus. Other subjects include E40 English, G ... ? E12 English Composition, one option of which is The Post-War World

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGlMoNs4qlM&list=PL2D2F4E4B08214BC2&index=31&

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  . Sheffield’s story time (i.e. learning the fundamentals of probability but

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2021, which are unmarked. This post will contain spoilers for some puzzles, which will be marked. Organizing…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  dollar, a cheeseburger, and a milkshake that contained about ¬Ω cup of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  question, If pi and e had a fight, who would win? Because the standard of ... is clearly better, because: 1. you can eat it and it is tasty. e is not tasty. 2. people care to memorise more of pi than e. obviously it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any humanities field (21), and any engineering field (E). We were recently messaged about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  Rat. The second, an MIT e-mail address. There's just something about ... 't have a brass rat yet (this year though!) I did get my MIT e-mail address ... , but where did MIT students go to check their e-mail? What did it look

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times e even though I meant "Pi/Pie". Anyways, as Pi Day approaches, I thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  scholastic distinctions: Math (e.g. AMC, ARML, Mu Alpha Theta) Science (e.g. Science Olympiad, USABO) Robotics (e.g. FIRST Chairman's Award, firefighting robots) Computer science (e.g. ACSL, USACO) Engineering (e.g. bridge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  I promised you 5th East Hall Rush photos, so here they are. 3rd East decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom. We were…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web interface anymore after taking an unintentional sabbatical from the esteemed blogging position for 1/38th of my…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I’m way excited to meet all of you, and also not because you make me feel old. But I’m mostly excited. Excited to get fitted for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008