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  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  alone use them in future experiments? Which hardness scale do these ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT’s hardness. Background But first, let me address a question that’s undoubtedly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  What follows is a guest post from the Chop Stir Hack team. CSH is a new MIT ASA group that publishes a semesterly food magazine. It grew out ... microwaved food. While this assumption does hold some truth, MIT actually has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  't listen to as much music as I know a lot of other people do, and my tastes definitely aren't as varied. I like to play the same songs on repeat. Like, a ... things all the time. Like, a lot - although on this front I've gotten

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... Snively). In addition, we are welcoming a new guest blogger from GEL, the ... . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final

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

  So many problem sets

  

  Now that term has geared up a bit, most classes have given some sort of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  time.  I hope to do more Algebraic Topology and this is a great ... ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... time between registration and now, I also added [annotation note="a class

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Almost exactly a week ago, after a blissfully underbooked flight back to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  to do with phase diagrams. There was actually a pretty cool experiment ... guys and only writing short updates. This makes me sad. So today I have a ... ? Uh...so this isn't really so much a fact as something I was delighted

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  doing that day. I was lucky enough to have been awarded a Global Education ... Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full ... taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... 't that great". I said sure to my friend because doing stuff with your ... ! It turns out that even a museum you've seen "like four times" can blow

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... /W) collected some Advice and responses from faculty on ChatGPT and A ... CMS.614: Critical Internet Studies, a Communication Intensive course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  Hi! this is going to be a sorta long blog so here’s a tldr: I went to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... , annoyed the frosh and local wildlife, and generally had a good time.  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on ... caught on fire and flipped over a couple of times but we didn't have any ... that either we'd found a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit my final grades?

  Most students apply to college at the beginning of their last year of high school, so final grades aren’t available. Only admitted students are required to submit their final grades.…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... you can" and "Oh, DON'T WORRY, we'll be cool if you just SEND ME a page or something TODAY!!" and "AHHHHH!!! NO PRESSURE JUST DO YOU HAVE

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  avoid repeating past mistakes. From doing a UROP, I learned how important ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  on Wednesday or do things to distract yourself from your computer. I ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  exam schedule gets a bit more staggered, so it's better). For example ... night, and then I still had a project proposal due today that I haven ... about, so here's September (along with a bunch of quotes from life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and ... really want you guys to like MIT and appreciate all the things it can do

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008