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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  discusses the history and culture of Africa, focusing on countries where ... couple of days of working on it nonstop and liberally consulting Stack ... of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math-and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an aesthetic workspace with color-coded notes, DIY pencil holders, and marbled ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small-talk topic? I want fewer of those. Get more involved on campus. I've tried ... writer the first week of freshman fall and never left. (I think they even

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  okay. i'm super behind on this and that's my bad. but... when you ... , and if you lock your bike correctly, you should not have any problems. i ... my bike to access X part of campus, but that'll take barely any time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  joy; when others of them weren't, their sorrow was mine, too. And for ... meet every one of you who couldn't be admitted in person and tell you ... comforting to any of you right now. But if you get nothing else out of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... house can be difficult, and usually the story behind the name of a house ... exciting and busy time of year in the Office of Admissions! And now, I leave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , and taking a majority answer. Since mergesort makes on the order of N ... can prove the following: a majority of 40 log N comparisons on X and Y ... sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to go to classes and stuff, so he was expelled at the end of his ... attending lectures, doing readings, and working on problems sets specifically ... he have to skip most of his lectures and problem sets in order to pass

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  bubble tea and would never imagine wasting any of the bobas again. UROPs ... time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I ... into a shooting competition with another one of the advisees and it made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  binging Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Wicked and V for Vendetta analysis ... gremlin takes over do any of those ideas make it out   all creative ... every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... numerals -- On some forms and posters, people refer to their course (major ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  shot clinic was one of the coolest things I’ve seen since I got here, and ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door ... has a door, and behind it were some more stickers that some of our

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  not the most of any dessert. I count six for cookies, [annotation note="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... a foundational part of human nature, and their significance is

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

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit ... . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  rest of SAAS again. Unfortunately, my phone dies on the way and I am so ... lot of desi people and get to know people on SAAS board with me better ... track of everything that was happening and I will try to recreate most of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your ... a decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in ... system to reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the lost password link

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  TW: Detailed Descriptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault, Brief Mentions of Pedophilia and Disordered Eating   This ... mouth of a 5’ 3” tall girl, particularly if I exclaim it while standing on

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  check this blog periodically through the week, and will be with you on the ... Hello, dear RA applicants! It's almost winter break and you are ... . We understand and want this process to be as painless as possible

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016