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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... particular, used mathematical concepts to reinforce his optimism that a supreme ... wrote a book, Introductio ad Quadraturum Curvarum (Introduction to the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  , hat, and bib and used a hula hoop and plastic bags to make a giant test ... costumes. In my freshman year, the “best costume” award was given to a guy ... ’m sorry to say that I took a more conventional route, as I stayed in lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led ... . Look at what we do for you. We almost fell prey to a demon

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in childbirth would be said to have been taken by the fairies to nurse a fairy ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... , but here was a deal-breaker: I went to the orientation meeting, only to ... know if a better time works.") to no avail. Eventually, I left, and one

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and ... , expecting a different type of entry and wanting to know more and more about ... such, It's time for me to shift my writing a bit. You'll notice fewer and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  were on Spotify. A huge part of Spotify is being able to make and share ... , making them perfect when you want to make a design for anything that ... Procrastination by Addicted2Success. It's a web app, no need to download anything

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  SIM cards, making arrangements so that we don’t end up living in a box ... it was to find people to click with who were at a more advanced stage ... came, I was grateful to have that support network there; a little

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a ... ’m still adjusting to this environment, but i don’t feel like a functioning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... a style image in addition to an input image during [annotation note="making ... IAP. For context, CycleGAN is a conditional image-to-image translation

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... doing a few dishes we went to sleep in the staff room: a room just wide ... ," she said. Startled, I tried to picture her in a doctor's office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... myself to my clubs and obtain a high position; however, the one thing I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... , in broad daylight, when a policeman chokes an unarmed black man to ... country as racially traumatized as this to heal with a president who is only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  remember distinctly thinking I did not want a school to make me. I didn ... makerspace I just got access to, IDC, where there’s an embroidery machine and a ... . We talked about a project on a whim, and planned to meet again

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... and emailed me asking me to audition. As a shy freshman, even the ... last February, I knew I had made a grave mistake; I knew I needed to be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As ... writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... and see what happens during day-to-day life that would help make that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  being miserable. It's okay to have a first choice, but make sure you like a few other choices too. Make sure to take rush seriously. It ... temporary room. Don't unpack. (A good strategy is to pack a suitcase with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the ... represents making it half way, as well as is one of the main symbols to signify you actually attended MIT. In a way it makes me feel more like a real

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  and use their opinions to make a final decision--Yes or No--on whether ... challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

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

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005