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  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6)…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA, where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 – 100 minutes away. Getting…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer and into the…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  My thesis is done. It is 384 pages long, 2.0833% of them text, 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code.         Here is potato soup,…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  Two weeks ago, Gizmodo published an article describing an anonymous former Facebook employee’s claims that Facebook news curators routinely suppressed conservative news from the social network’s “Trending Topics” module. Facebook…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI 2015, Maker Faire (NYC) 2014), but I rarely provide advance notice before I arrive somewhere to give…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  TechCrunch DisruptNY 2016 was an absolutely amazing experience. For five days I hung out with startup founders, venture capitalists, hackers, journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find a haircut at…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled “Meltdown” about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful, sad, and beautifully sad post,…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here. **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I’m blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I’m sweating, partially because it’s hot even inside with the AC nominally blasting, and partially because I just ate so much BBQ…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I’ve spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can’t think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote this…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. During this time, we've been…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made with a 2-liter seltzer water bottle, some foam core board, a hot glue gun, a red folder,…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and technology disciplines. We forget that innovation at its core really means solving problems in new ways, across many disciplines.…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced towards MIT, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Killian Court had been transformed into a huge sports stadium,…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  “No innovation without fabrication!” This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. ’18 was known for always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016