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• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT, and now that I have emerged from my first season of reading MIT ... for Admitted Students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street.   I make ... lovely faces: Pri and Mira, '16, with the creator of Khan Academy. Khan talks about how he started out, what he thinks of MIT, and why Khan

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives ... aside, I’ve obtained an above average number of body pillows this past

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... cleaner than the Charles, I really miss the 17 miles of running paths set up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  you many of resources like offering you hosting space where you can ... ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1 ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... Universe but also might possibly be a magician, because: In 10 minutes he untangled the unruly tangle of shoelaces that is my life schedule and turned

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  i ended up on the west end of campus rather than the east end, i also ... content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  process the decisions, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on the process ... great care and thoroughness that they deserve. On behalf of the entire ... your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  deception lubricates the societal wheels of Ferrante's universe and make it ... aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of ... )I'm almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur '03 is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Institute for Talent Development and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  such as MIT's Paul Samuelson, the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman ... On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... associate with cool experiences. as of my last [physical] day at MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  -minute trek from West Campus to Walker Memorial, where a lot of dance ... astounding!! i'm currently living near the MIT Museum, which is a couple of ... cheese"]Roxy's[/annotation] because of the distance, or when i'd UBER to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020