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  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... ]\tau = 6.283… = 2\pi[/latex]. And I cannot help but tell you about the glory ... this is the post number i claim it was[/caption] why tau? Note: This

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... will make your time easier as you arrive at MIT. 1. Documents I expect that MIT has already sent you your I-20 forms. I also expect that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  ; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight."  2. n ... Sciences; used to refer to any non-technical class. "I'm taking .006, 18 ... , overworked, drained, etc. etc. "Man, I am so hosed." See also: firehose

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus ... to look super cool. I’m not allowed to post any pictures of what it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  dance." Cynthia O' '16 and I swooned in our seats and ate free shish kebabs afterwards while we talked to Tommy DeFrantz. I considered switching ... Complex or Billboard. Below are the bits I scribbled down. On race: I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... ago, Matt and I spent a solid summer afternoon trying to figure out if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  remain on the wait list. Can you tell me where I am on the wait list? No ... application was lacking, or what I should improve on? If we waitlisted you, it ... over our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  supervisions are setup within your college (another system I'll talk about in a ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT ... of this post. Since coming to cambridge I've had a wide array of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on the waitlist? No ... lacking, or what I should improve on? If we waitlisted you, it means we ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  I said then, ...FIRST (which stands for For Inspiration and ... Event in Atlanta... Last weekend, I attended the Championship in Atlanta. Though I attended primarily in a private, rather than professional

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  This is going to be my third CPW, and all I can tell you that you ... highlighting done for you? ;) THURSDAY night, 7-9pm+, iHouse International Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... vile. Might I mention that my cooking partner, Danny, is flamingly vegan ... . Night drops like a blanket, and I am suffused with sticky satisfying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  , totally worth it. A little background, with a lot of parentheses: I just ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... strict time restraint and creative use of limited resources, i.e. switching

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great experiences I've enjoyed this semester. I'll tell you about one of them here

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... HASS course a term. I averaged closer to 2 HASS classes each term, mostly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one, which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk ... chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... Transition Team, and I've been thinking about it ever since. What does it mean

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... rip it out of the sky/I've tried about a million times/To shine the way ... ?/And when did you stop caring what people think/I think that I'll dye mine

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... population. I take 5 HASS classes, rather than the “usual” 3-4 technicals and a ... subconscious yearning for sleep. I have, at times, been unable to resist the call

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I ... to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I learned back when I was first on my way to MIT, as well as things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012