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  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... to Do It. A few weeks ago, I was searching for 8.02 ASE materials for ... to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  became worse." Though I do admit to spending a few seconds wanting to write ... to DO things, but writing is difficult. So, I have decided to write ... whatever this is (a blog post? A stream of consciousness diary entry? The

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  get to make them! But what do I actually do? I've been learning a lot ... started painting again (and might be doing a series of children's book ... consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  mail to open and process, and we are doing so as quickly as possible. Please do not harass your teachers or counselors if you don't yet see a ... contact you and perhaps do an interview at a later date. For all applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  or can you actually do it here at 18 years of age? I return to a ... , I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  parents. Also, how do we know if a supplemental recommendation letter has ... from other examination boards (like GCSE O or A Levels that I am taking ... -US grading systems. In fact, your system (O/A Levels) is probably the grading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil ... , which was honestly a mistake to do back then"]before,[/annotation] but it ... probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  . On Sunday, I had plans with my friend to do a grand tour de Boston. We ... Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  , MIT grad Dr. David Berry knows a thing or two about success. Though he ... a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of ... finish up my food, Chicken Makluba from Sepal (a restaurant in our student

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and ... playing a sport (or two) here and what type of adjustments being a ... commitment wasn't worth it. So it's a personal choice. Let's take a look at the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of ... +w reversed | w a string of symbols} is the language of palindromes etc

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  integral of your speed-time graph will do just that. An integral is just a ... curve anymore, it’s a line. And you know what to do with lines, you ... , “What can I do today to get just a little better today than I was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but ... name like Mathcamp, you’d assume we do a lot of math. And you’re not ... do, and as a serious and dignified mathematician myself, I’ve learned

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really ... independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's a shame that I actually misplaced ... do not decrease, the economy isn't truly in a recession and there ... , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  friends from Michigan, who is down there doing a Teach for America placement ... ), and finally see a sign: BRIDGE TO MEXICO. Oops. Omgomgomg what do I do ... September 12, 2008 - September 17, 2008 I spent a nice weekend in Mc

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  Worse-Is-Better is a better development philosophy than Do ... had been doing homework, to walk home. After a day of fairly clear ... . I think of my "list of potential blog entries" as a stack, not a queue

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008