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• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  I had a post planned last Thursday, but then it was like everything ... has nothing to do with the November Rule). I finally have time to actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  life has found a way of tracing back to this. Other things I love doing ... Like most bloggers, as a starry-eyed freshman, I wrote a bio that has not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold ... [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  using a straight line, there’s only one way to do it. So we say that two ... challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  only ever been able to do this passively, eg. via being a good listener ... in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  . What do we find? Of course, a scrapbook of Naruto Shippuden Sketches ... Us, hesitantly: “Do you want to see every Naruto-themed art project ... up was opening containers. We started with a clear plastic one. Its lid

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  Last semester, I took 18.100A (Real Analysis) with Professor Choi ... class a tad bit overconfident and not as concerned that the class would be ... all by myself. I thought, okay, easy enough, I just do this and that

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... coding, or "incoding". she's a fulbright fellow and a rhodes scholar, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  . This new group hosts a monthly forum in which attendees discuss issues of class disparity and more generally have a dialogue about understanding ... about it? Well, I got this email earlier in the year. As a first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... strong!” Building 14 is shaped like a square and has a square courtyard ... since his freshman year and is now a staff member, which means that he has

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad for model planes. Wind means turbulence, extra drag, and a significantly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  : do be sure that if you have a flight at Logan at 6:45pm that you leave ... , Sheesha: And this is proof positive why I would rather have a cat than a ... home on a random weekend like this. I go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  students do whatever they find worthwhile – whether it’d be a mini ... !) taking a class (many people do. ‚ò∫) Browse around this year’s IAP site for a better idea ‚Üí Overview of IAP 2010 From what I've heard, some

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  year working as a Program Coordinator for the Office of the Arts: do you ... the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  that does. I'll do my best! I'm now going to start studying for a test ... always enjoy a good laugh, March 15th was definitely not a laughing day for ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... thesis advisor? Professor James Poterba. Now that he's a best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  , and do not have to choose a major until the middle of their second term ... a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck ... begins! 3098 applications, up ~10% from last year. Doing the math, it ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when I "grew up." Having been a computer nut since age four, I happily ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005