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MIT's code for SAT is 3514
MIT's code for ACT is 1858
MIT's code for TOEFL is D021
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Blog / How to Human
in a funk and salvaging hope
in between That was definitely my worst semester in-person at ... okay and *deeply* grateful for the people that supported me through my ... experiences scratched at me quietly clawed away at the hope I've so deeply held -
Blog / Challenges
sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once
My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... time ever at MIT, and then we went back home to not ... at Math Prize all over again; that Covid might end and my high school -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair
logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... laugh maniacally at your crawling pace. That probably suffices for now -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Finding Balance May I have this dance?
Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in ... , Wellesley, Harvard, and beyond for the Ballroom Dance Camp, Day 2. "Look ... probably an understatement. We've been positively explosive for the past two -
Blog / Academics & Research
Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT
If you are at all following the news, you'll know that the US ... legal requirement for the government to continue paying its financial ... US politics? Professor Pauline Maier, a history professor at MIT -
Blog / Challenges
MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.
. Parents are usually easy to spot for a couple of reasons. First, they all ... know what's going on and throws a more difficult curriculum at you ... say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I -
Blog / Admissions
Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.
Doonesbury Straw Poll Congeniality Award. As for the question at hand -- Where ... academic futures for Alex Doonesbury: Should she go to Rennselaer, Cornell ... program running at a time so we don't kill the server again." Meanwhile -
Blog / Hacks
This was meant to be written a week and a half ago
, Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ... meant, and I have a Monday class at 9:30 in the morning, which is early by MIT standards. Two things happened at almost exactly the same time to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.
the Men's Ice Hockey game for a little Marching Band on Ice action and ... was particularly boisterous at this weeks game, and I'm sure that our ... tremendously violent sport even at the MIT level; even from our vantage point -
Blog / Academics & Research
Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.
up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS) at MIT have developed a ... In 1997, Fabio Sauli invented the Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) at -
Blog / Academics & Research
I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.
pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... couple of examples. Take for example, 18.02, Multivariable Calculus, a -
Blog / Academics & Research
No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…
day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics ... how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I ... I wrote an entire entry about his lab (I mentioned this at the seminar -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.
I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... Library of Congress, says Kahle. The collection, available at www -
Blog / Life after MIT
Three patterns from the pattern language of my life
newborn. In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW -
Blog / Challenges
mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT
perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... near-impossible for me to lose...but this was not a situation I -
Blog / Admissions
Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…
happened if people arranged to meet after school for a fistfight, like at the ... 's a shame this area of town isn't as nice." Person 2: "Yeah, but at ... mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th -
Blog / Advice
Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking
For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... more details. You learn from your mistakes and get better at making predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more -
Blog / Academics & Research
What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations
” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic ... report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer -
Blog / Challenges
stepping back on keeping your priorities straight
perspective for at least 45 seconds. Here it is, if you've missed it: "When ... saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... for "when I have more time" -- sleep, for one, but mostly art. Two