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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  and formulas on their limited sheet of paper that they have condensed ... them and to think on my feet. One of the biggest differences between ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... favourite examples of modular origami because it’s both fun to assemble and ... summer, but it’s now the last day of my internship, and I’m preparing to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and ... overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... viral, and, some speculate, was the start of a domino effect that led to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last ... recommended, the interview is not a required part of the application (and ... copy of any document at this time. Also, you do not need to call MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  took my junior year, and didn't make any of the above. This was really ... . Then I saw this post on LinkedIn, and both the description of the post ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... 's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent ... walked straight out of a clothing ad, and others dress like Mardi Gras

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  that none of them had any shows soon. and improv sounded fun. at the ... potential new actors. and they put on a great show! there were lots of ... improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... and egg strusel fillings. Come get them fresh out of the oven ... , Nov 4 lemon-glazed! - pretzels on sactab 10:56pm, Nov 5 salted and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre ... our dorm rooms, and then proceeded to build them out of acrylic. My ... point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young ... interview, and would like to prepare. Here is my advice: You of course know ... , music, history and, oh yes, almost forgot... of course you are an

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  this big list of about 10 different class combinations and had narrowed ... the four I picked all have the same schedule. This kind of sucked, and ... institutions of government and the representation of competing interests. Topics

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing ... lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... having lots of meetings recently and we already have a schedule and stuff

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  front of others, there’s a whole different set on the inside. And ... year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to ... sad. You’re going to miss your family. And your friends. And home cooked

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  down on a whiteboard trying to remember any cities I could and Alan Z ... two wings: East and West. i live on the west wing of the fourth floor ... , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have ... experience. Revitalized by all of these things, I decided to take on the ... confidence boosts, as my reviewer told me I had a lot of potential and my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  low cost ways of carrying out lab-like procedures in the home and is ... makers in our admissions process, and has a general love of hands-on ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June

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

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to ... . This feeling of utter panic manifested itself on the 6.005 Piazza site ... the Beta submission of problem set 2 to Sunday 11:59 PM. Armando and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... responses of white women, Asian women, and underrepresented minority women ... thoroughness and rigor--but it is a window onto a truth that many of us like to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  physics p-set due and a bio midterm on Wednesday. I spent the rest of Monday ... on work, and vice versa. I guess that’s what this freshman semester of ... school’s ultra-small math olympiad class, and spent a significant number of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... requirements, of which I have taken very few, and general math has super flexible ... has been firmly on the pure math track for a few years and who hasn

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017