Search

Search Results

• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... formula to exist.  Galois theory is related at least by analogy to a ... by no means all!) natural phenomena occur due to the accumulation of a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails ... scenery BY ZIPLINE! Zipline is the way to travel, let me tell you. I even ... (it was hard to get a good picture, sorry) - basically, you clip into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  , while I frequent the latter, getting to the former is more of a luxury ... fries and you flag down a waitress to get your anticipatory doggie bag ... Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  community can get a free flu shot by appointment with MIT Medical. There will ... endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  , followed by ice cream at the famous Mike's Pastries. We tried to walk off the ... , but that's enough to get me excited. f. Cambridge Side Galleria ... get bored in Boston! It's such an amazing city, with so many things to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  . Title Link: I Am Prepared, get it? IAP... (it's okay if you don't want to ... better? Come learn about databases to find answers to these questions, get ... -deprivation competition. Get together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT ... morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we ... , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... high school (duh), and most people had to fight to get the opportunities ... everybody could get a 100% or something, so people take it upon themselves to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  get CPR certified, or learn to take blood pressures, or not pass out ... to gain experience by working as much as possible, especially before ... It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I ... wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I

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

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to slightly more niche advancements, like getting struck by lightning while ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  catch up to it and I’ll have to get a new one. Maybe by then I will be ... holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here ... 88’) just dropped by the station to look around and he looked happy

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  years and upperclassmen, and get a feel for everything MIT has to offer ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  try and get things done to graduate in June (eeep! real world! yikes ... people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  /classmates can answer them - a.k.a. a way to get instantaneous answers to questions ... this pset, so it is unnecessarily demanding to finish the pset by this ... the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku

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

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  get on with the “Who is Cydnie” business… I am commonly referred to as ... blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am extremely excited to share my MIT world with the blogosphere and to heighten

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010