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  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  perhaps some thoughts about life at MIT too. If you're not as interested in ... some thoughts about life at MIT :). The math in the first part is some ... first year at MIT. Part 1: The Loomis-Whitney inequality (aka the math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at ... -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version ... ="97282" image3="97288" /] Now that I’m at MIT, I play tetris almost daily. In the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  major at mit! this past semester he took 8.13, junior lab! ///// Junior ... rewarding classes that the Physics department has to offer at MIT. Given the ... ”, the Physics department at MIT doesn’t follow along this path but instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense ... hurt after a few minutes, you should probably only use it sparingly if at ... probably moves forward at roughly the same time as your right leg, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  . Plus, cyclists have to be focused at all times, eyes on the road (so ... the needed direction at the same time. We got to see a small demo ... is Pinkie, stares at us knowingly through beady black eyes   A

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  't decreased at all. If you post your question there, you have a few advantages ... . Battle on! - V. M. asked, Over here at my school, we aren't taught any ... the admissions office. - M. B. said, I spoke with some counselors at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  chronic ankle pain and tendonitis. At the art museum, I was sitting on a ... velcro echoes. In Chinatown, we walk at a snail pace. Guilt increases with ... , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  exercise, I got rightly rejected from a position at a startup. My interviewer ... having the wrong strengths at the wrong time for the company. That there ... lower stakes. Decisions made at the cusp of my childhood felt vitally

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the ... doing 5 that they released specifically as "past exam problems". At a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... IAP or summer that I did full-time work, I arrived at the office at 7 a ... -defining laziness. At the core of all this anxiety was the biting fear that my mentor

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  attention. My summer at home, before and after Alaska, was mellow. Restful ... rest at the roots of the ecosystem we are all a part of: generosity ... , which places humans at the top and plants at the bottom. Instead, in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  real as anything I knew at that time. Two years later I felt pulled ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that ... one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  guests at Kenyon College, noted author David Foster Wallace began… “There ... fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys ... eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome ... exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help ... students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  on the HIGHWAY in Maine this is INSANE" "Oh my god" the adventure At 9 ... trying to book the same car at the same time. It was insane. Cait and I ... to have friends eager to go on excursions like these. At 12am, Isaac

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  . Like at all. Last semester, I bought a cassette player, an old landline ... spend a considerable amount at Cheapo Records, a record store super close ... better look at it, but found a steel anchor attached to the back that tied

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  eclipse, this year is also a [annotation note="when the Sun is at its most ... particular, this means the aurora borealis/australis are at their brightest ... ="alignnone" width="300"] Sunrise at the harbor in Reykjavík, Iceland’s capital

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  !" I brought a little pink picture grabber I bought last fall at a ... that I spend too much money at, shown here: [carousel image1 ... of them (#4 and #6, the only ones they had) and listened to them at the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  you are looking at photos of course. During one of my classes this ... o_o, but it was also cool looking back at that blog showing the ... .   5/5/23Classic red line. I was at Kendall, running late to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... at Maseeh people for living so close to campus when you have to walk ... . And if that gets boring, you can even use all four limbs at once

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023