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  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  low entropy/low cognitive load. Plus, there is no need for a calculator

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  open to exiting the comfort zone. Really, no one is going to judge. Some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  no record of anything. I hang out with a lot of mathematicians and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  quite a lot of time in my room. No shame—last year, I always felt pressure

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  diversity of the subjects we are all required to take was useful, no matter

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  that all of you (whether or not you are graduating today, and no matter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  disappointed that no one provided evidence that MIT's financial decisions are

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double major isn't for everyone and please don't feel like you're an inferior student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a single major. Do what makes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• 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…

  

  above). Notice that at no point have you had to pay. On this trip, you won

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  .10 a swipe, no matter how many stops or changes of trains you make, it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  described in no other manner than just sad. The amount of people I see in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  multiplier.  But there's no way I'll be able to design, fabricate, and test an

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  forgot I owned, followed by the books I had no intention of revisiting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  no idea what any of those words meant). Sometime over the summer, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  that girl helping her boyfriend. Second, no assumptions at all were made

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  interview report, I have no bigger bearing on your eventual decision as, say

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  feels like I never left. Last summer, I had no clue what was going on - I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  CPW, no worries! Orientation week is just as great, just a week long

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  textbook; the syllabus says that "no single text covers the material of 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  or romaine lettuce.  No cutting involved - just rinse the leaves and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013