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• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  : Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna ... these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: Alright, alright. Battle

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to a couple of people in the room. Chris M (of blogger fame) has one ... applied for the job and after a couple of phone interviews and some ... show up (we were roommates). Items of note in the hotel room include a tv

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  during freshman orientation or during the first few days of classes." jtron ... all of your options. Most freshman in their first term take a math class ... the MIT Museum. Not at MIT, you could take a tour of Fenway Park, walk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of ... the length of a FIRST Robotics' Build Season, to the state of political ... Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  House, and the thought of having to feed all of them, plus visitors from ... charcoal from; I had no answer. Turns out that the UA was delivering a bit of ... hopped out of the truck, hollaring directions to a bunch of other students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  . Walking to the other side of the first floor, we pass by several common ... 'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note="The ... things you're doing, and past the expectations of what you should be doing ... "]what YC does.[/annotation] You feel trapped in the bubble of it all though

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... definitely not the whole picture. All of that said, the Big 5 test, unlike ... thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  for a training/conference weekend. It was our first 3-day weekend of the ... ’ drought look good out here. The lack of writing was complicated… it was not ... couldn’t be closer to the truth. As I packed up most of my clothes as the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah ... started work today and had to see the doctor. The first thing she did was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  the first floor of the Infinite Corridor -- not quite as strong an ... Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... applications yesterday to experience 5 fun events. First was the famous MIT Charm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  everything!" But since I am now twenty years old and mature, the whole point of ... a total of 8 miles the whole week! But watching hundreds of nearly ... to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  communication, power design, and image processing. I was reminded of the first ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... well over 600 events over the course of a few days, and the prefrosh add ... events, and generally makes this one of the most BAMF weekends on the East

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  unwound. Yet one of the downsides is that I've now gotten myself into the ... and it became a game of "So what do you love the least?", like asking to ... dread of realizing that I had to drop a ball. Drop the ball. Give up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little ... baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006