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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... most of my belongings in too many cardboard boxes. The dust on my walls and shelves traced out the silhouettes of what used to live on them

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• 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.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... : Equidecomposable The ability to chop up one figure and build a new one out of its ... above are equidecomposable. Below is another of the many ways that they

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... place devoid of good things, but now I feel like there's too much stuff in ... was going on. She sympathized with how the sense of time gets completely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part. Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their own. As admissions officers, we talk about one way the residents of ... ="the Eastside Party"]a big party[/annotation] on it as part of [annotation note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  't be in anyone's way and no long-term experiments were going on (as ... really enjoy advocating for good content creation and the importance of ... (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... '6' for shorter)) has been appointed as new Chancellor! This is no ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... exhausting, so I remove my media and pour 59 new plates of agar. I go a little ... this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  most traffic of any entry ever written on the MIT blogs. While I am ... words, I think MIT can take much of the credit for the shift we've seen on ... included the occasional entry on her job. She noticed a fair amount of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class ... of the class (as measured by the weekly hours on Firehose) and the ... At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... he'd taken me on a tour of their office while I was in the Bay Area ... identified a good fit. As I got down to the process of actually filling out the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  fences, and we live on opposite sides of campus, so our social circles ... belong here or not, I was admitted, so I’m intent on making the most of it ... A little while ago, I got my first(?) mention on MIT Confessions, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  . You think that you’re on the list because of the Activities Fair back in ... . You drift asleep on Saferide. The same gaggle of Asian women in shiny ... . After an all-nighter on campus, you try to make your way home through the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... a wind indicator on the top of the boat?" asked joseph. "yes," said ... goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... didn’t try to study 2 hours before the exam on 2 hours of sleep. I ... stamina left. This isn’t particularly new, the sort of post-exam hosedness

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Crossing and get lost on the way back. We could grab some Nerf guns and have ... tour of the spiffy new admissions office, which has a lot of snacks. We ... some definition of pop music. Or we could go on an adventure. Many of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  in the summer and over IAP, focusing primarily on creating profiles of ... the time) with a thesis titled “Experiments on Resistance of Riveted ... out in the minds of those who knew him. He was the butt of many a good

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and the sides of the heart. Happily this worked on the first try! Now ... dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a few examples of modern blacksmithing, ranging from the "new and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  exciting, because it's so new. Last term there was a group of students trying ... As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  -buzz my hair and set me on a path of never having to pay for a haircut ever ... others who are still struggling on their way up. But meanwhile, the view ... will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018