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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ’m into theoretical computer science, and applying algorithms to real ... time. Same thing with the Museum of Science. Also, I’m actually surprised ... of the MBTA stations, including the Silver Line. He made a post about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• 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.

  

  biology, computer science, or math—occasionally two of them, but very rarely ... 18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

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

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  applied [annotation note="something many of you are probably going through ... painstakingly apply winged eyeliner as part of my daily morning routine ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  quite a bit this summer and I think I wrote a few drafts but none of them ... that important to share with applying students: taking the L. Y'all, I ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education"]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... ready for university study. Although we don't have any required high ... your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  "]REX[/annotation]committee. Under some amount of wishful thinking, I apply to be co-chair of the ... -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... next house community"]I have nothing better to do,[/annotation]so I apply

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... . There may be an onslaught of information bursting toward you like an ... ? Take a step back, relax, and revel. First of all, and perhaps easier said

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic ... offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  -Gurion University makes this place a college town. Students are in the midst of finals ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  several offers to, um, join a tour of certain lesser-known parts of the ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... alarm goes off after about seven hours of sleep. I hit snooze, because who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  getting an education from the University of Chicago, which is not a school. It's like getting an education from the University of Pennsylvania ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020