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  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for ... first encounter with Internet mathematics occurred when my high school ... a bit harder than what I was comfortable with, and I got a lot of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with ... 8.03 (Waves and Vibrations) with high expectations. I was not ... . I've always felt this resonance with math, but I think I'm starting to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write ... do happen with some frequency abroad). Instead, ask another teacher ... care policy with, the physics teacher who you challenge each day for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  soupy grey cold specked with watery yellow sunstreaks. By conservative ... the extra help with coding and performing routine tasks traditionally ... not the string theorists. Or LIGO, since LIGO was crowded with UROPs

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with ... missionary work MIT baseball player shares gospel with team before leaving on ... give him time to speak after closing the season with a 5-4 victory over

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  initial outrage, tinged with a hint of sadness. I have a lab report and a ... be insecure, you might be panicking already. With headlines like ... counselor?" Attractive posters and online advertisements with grinning grads

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  Some days begin with ballistic alarms and spilled coffee and calculus homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a ... begin with ringing alarm clocks, I thought, which seemed hilarious because

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I ... unfold shirts and throw them back with the rest of the neatly folded shirts ... card with a very nice amount of Tech Cash on it to spend on food

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  I have an interesting relationship with Harvard. Coming from MIT I ... this term with my friend Nina '10, so while my collar isn't physically ... other hand, fits right in with her peacoat and colorful scarves. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  activities and life: Spend your time with things you're passionate about. Don ... , and ultimately, I broke a little. I ended up with two classes I wanted ... may or may not convince themselves they like. With that, I'd like to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  away and rocked our floor with eggs benedict, a frittata, fresh fruit ... that I've fallen in love with over the past four tears. And that, I have ... in Boston for the next two Sundays. Oh well." So with all this going

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  window, but somehow the only people that ever seem to be in there with ... spend the night in Cochem with everybody's friendly German grandmother and ... awesome. 2. Always bring your student ID with you, because you get half off

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  guests are permitted in Institute Housing with the advance permission of ... my 10th in ICSE with 90.4%.but my 12th was not upto the mark.(i have ... whether you are a fit with MIT's culture. MIT's culture, in my observation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... out of their skulls with boredom, but I'm a neuroscientist, and nonhuman ... 'm meeting up with my best friend from high school and we're going to watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  'm done with all of this deep discussion about admissions and learning from ... ambulance, they let me play with the stretcher. (Mostly I just think Mike, the ... would interfere with mandatory training meetings. We were basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  of the story, so with easy browsing you can avoid all that mess. 1 ... -brother-in-law could make using dry wood and diesel, and landed up in the hospital with ... friend of mine, Cathie (UGA) '07, invited me to a free concert with Garbage

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  we think that keeping in touch with you guys on a personal level makes ... . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... ? Just don't waste the two hours. Do something magical with them that will

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  ’t have many good memories with his step father. One point of contact ... his preteen years, John became obsessed with wrestling and watched twice ... whenever they threw out the rulebook against the heel to fight fire with fire

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you ... entrance. But it turns out that you can do quite a lot of things with ... collaboration with the Office of Admissions on the Story Wall started in late 2019

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  quickly and started filling my time with EC events, deciding that Maseeh ... connection I've ever had with a group of people, who I feel safe, accepted, and ... when I came to MIT that I would be going on a retreat with some randos

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025