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  The end of a chapter

  

  England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• 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.

  

  Approach to Hilbert’s Third Problem” by David Benko, pages 665-76 of volume ... to a plane, bounded by any number of straight, uncurved lines, the ... or more segments that, placed end to end, make up the total length of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT ... I've changed my bio, which you can view on my author page, once every ... graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... make the non-antiques appear ancient, merchants feed them to turkeys, whose digestive acids eat away at the paint to make the dolls look

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  when I’d never had to make compromises before, the dissolution of my ... stopped making it to class at all. I also stopped socializing with people in ... ; Building 7, late November of freshman fall.   I want to make this very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... .) - See tool (v.) punt (v.) - (1) To slack off, e.g. by checking Facebook ... another building more commonly referred to by its number than its name. Z

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he makes a five-minute timer in five minutes. This was followed by a ... by, you talk to them even more about teaching, because you know them so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
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  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  becomes self-cleaning. Afterward, you only need to maintain it by regular ... about. Someone’s horse was eaten by a lion; that sentence would not make ... to the spring protection implemented at the school by an organization

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  some food before my Uber to the airport got to campus. So after a quick ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just ... -night dining hall food to survive thrive. [carousel image1="107365" image2

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  driving around a quiet neighborhood, taking random twists and turns to make ... goats, and do random crafts to keep up the charm: make goat cheese and ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  would make for a cute ship, and we, as players, thought it'd be fun to do ... that make it harder for alums to stay involved. For example, over my ... -day game was Harry Potter Year 7: Hogwarts Under Siege, co-written by Andrew

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  preparation and decoration that needed to be done to make sure the PNMs felt ... as someone who was at first hesitant to the idea. Despite the ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  "teaches" you how to study, because techniques and tricks vary by person ... exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT ... actually covered by the professor him/herself. This means learning to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  quickly. These were true, but I thought I could find ways to defeat them: I ... road are dangerous; they make slumps longer and harder to spot. The ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’t want to make any decisions about the fall, whether it’s studying in the ... was lucky to make it out of my first year in mit relatively okay. and ... happened. it’s as if the entire month has just been in my head. to be fair

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
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  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  Bronx’s elevated subways to watch the buildings rush by me, but being too ... yearly by members of his fraternity. As the closest bridge to MIT’s campus ... been hit by a car here, the closest I’ve ever gotten to death or certain

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... belonged to Ralph J. Slutz '38, was painted with the phrase "TECH IS

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  message by welcoming others to create a space that celebrates all of SHASS ... while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  conversation, but a badly lit selfie and a quick hug would have to do. One day we ... a "now or never" deal: my parents had wanted to make this trip after ... freshman. Covid [annotation note="you got up to five other people who you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023