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  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  else on this campus, but I have done a little bit of this and that. This ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... truth is - and I think it's pretty clear, both from living on this campus

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  literally live next to you. I was not on top of things and was mostly unaware ... feel at home. I'm trying to do more outings and have a bit of a group ... experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  find a UROP, I should wander the halls of the department and knock on ... offices and goodness knows what else, on campus and around the world. As ... this earlier in the year, and a grad student friend of mine said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  third, and so on.) We will use a proof by induction on N, the size of any ... polyhedron.) Just as any pair of polygons of equal area can be decomposed and ... Euclid, any two tetrahedra with bases of equal areas and with equal heights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of ... it to say, we may look just as favorably on the trajectory and distance ... offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  hadn't violated any of their policies and allowed him to continue ... writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... majority of my free time (as it does), and during the year, the time that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One of Larry’s hobbies, aside from cutting edge technology research and ... out sailing. He is so insanely generous that, on the last day of summer ... lunch on the beach, and discussed strategy for the upcoming years, as well

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ’m studying math and philosophy. You don’t like either of those subjects yet ... , although you’re friends on Facebook. You have a lot of different friends now ... and carefree. Though maybe that’s just my projection of who I think you

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  's memory wrapped with want. Beneath these, and different from any of these ... day everyone moved out of hall. Three. Alan and I ate lunch the other ... one was around. Next year, I'll be moving out of East Campus, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  totally lost on me, until I read this book, and began getting an idea of ... down the stages of his illness and speculating on what triggered his ... ’s theories on the vanity of wealth, and the relevance of the influence of older

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  , this depends on your definitions of major, measurable, and impact, but in ... and alike in point of virtue," instead of those predicated on mutual ... that both the excess and the deficiency of any given thing are bad

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  , steps, strolls, and more."]probate[/annotation] on the weekend of Audrey ... colleges, so that the burden of travel doesn’t fall on the same people and ... at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Having some type of impact on the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... waterbath and grab a bucket of ice. 9:10 AM. My postdoc and I discuss the ... :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  ’t considered and I could be any of them and oh my god what the everloving egg am ... years in advance and feed any obsession you might have with your lack of a ... insights on how to go forth and study a range of different subjects. Plus

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  , so I refused to specialize. I didn’t want to give up on any of my ... to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any ... 16.07, and using on-orbit machine learning to identify which images of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  decision isn't made on these easily extracted and quantified points of data ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs ... . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  ’re in it, you can basically head in any direction you want and land on ... , does any of this really matter because life is absurd and we’re all just ... don’t have answers to any of these questions yet, and I don’t expect to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  's contagious enthusiasm, check out these videos on sizes of infinity and the ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015