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  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that Save ... to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  smarter students, and that we are doing a good job of recruiting ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  , straight up, but now I'm a routine of doing it every night with the others. I ... because I like having a bit more flexibility, but when we do make things in ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... supervisor at the Game Lab, asking us if we’d be interested in doing a graphic ... to directly apply the skills we gained from doing so to a UROP at MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  making it into a Twitter, uh, thing. One group is doing the first season of ... dig into what they do on a day to day basis because people don’t only ... do for fun! but as a major! I can study the things I like to do for fun

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  as a result :p whoops. Regardless, I do love, love linear algebra: I ... from the syllabus do it more justice than I could. A final paper and ... do it. I’ve wanted to be a tour guide for at least a little bit since

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  Every year we publish a FAQ about the wait list. Students on the wait ... here. How does the wait list work? We are aiming for a class of about ... also keep a wait list of students. Is the wait list ranked? No. How

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  Every year we publish a FAQ about the waitlist. Students on the ... here. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about ... also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No. How

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the ... fewer than 4% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  doing well academically, I had a depressing first trimester and took a ... blog! Back then, I was a starry-eyed over-caffeinated food-obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  a time when I would otherwise have been studying or not doing laundry ... FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one-and-a ... say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  —I've always just had a vague idea of things that would be nice to do or learn ... want to do a lot more: ice skating, pottery, dance workshops, painting ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  a conversation. So, the floor is yours. What do you want to talk about? Ameer: Honestly, I've been doing like a TON of thinking about like how I ... : Solid point. But i also see a lot of people doing the same TikTok dances

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  ." Teresa Giblin '11 (Course 9, of Senior Haus): "I'll be doing a UROP in the ... (Course 18, of Phi Delts, formerly of Next House): "I'll be doing a UROP in ... could write >1 page about everything I'm doing this summer. For a start, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with ... Here is something that always makes me laugh: My sister (a Harvard ... wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians, my favorite group is Techiya. As an a capella group, Techiya does not have any professor as a director or musical advisor. Techiya is made up

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  3 axes. You can do lots of cool things on a milling machine- from ... In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  . But there are a lot of things I do at home, just because I am interested ... everything as well as people doing a few things. In short, I wouldn't worry ... MIT as an option. I'm only taking 2 APs and considering a third. I do a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  procrastinate until the last minute. Doing this gives your brain a chance to ... saying “This is what I’m gonna do when I go to MIT!” Frankly, a lot of the ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025