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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to ... restructured itself on a fast, personal and somewhat upsetting level. I had to go

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• 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.

  

  a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the ... been scared were going to judge me. (If you’re reading this, thank you so ... : Equidecomposable The ability to chop up one figure and build a new one out of its

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

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  pressure on their children to succeed and to get A's. While it's wonderful to want your child to succeed and to encourage them to do well, threatening ... think) lectures are actually detrimental to your learning. Sometimes it

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ; That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new ... people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on ... interests I have tended to focus on MIT's leadership in artificial ... , and how exactly this relates to the emphasis on science here I wouldn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  also draw your attention to the U.S. government’s brief on behalf of the ... on desktop (or tap, on mobile) to see a related annotation on the right ... bottom, what seems to be at stake in this case — based on oral arguments

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  prepared. Based on a bevy of data in your application - your scores, your ... , and to capitalize on, their admission. Now, more than half the students ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... was so gorgeous it didn't matter that it probably makes little sense to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... /technology consultant to many films, including Minority Report, The Hulk, and Æon ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  name and number painted on their chests. They'll fill your entire room ... REALLY important to your MIT experience. Don't stress if you don't feel ... floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  primarily use. it's an indispensable way to quickly see how your schedules ... at sipb that's working on the new ... to plan out schedules when i have the time: student.mit.edu/catalog/index

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146 ... to many more measurement problems later on"]we decided it was within

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  :   Now you're ready. On September 14, Chris Peterson e-mailed the ... In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting ... for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to ... , schools, groups and so on. If you can find those pieces, you're probably in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... -empty tubs back to their dorms to share with friends. [caption id ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... having to identify my race on all kinds of forms, including standardized ... impact on the campus community. If an applicant has to create their own

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... several things. 1. You get to choose your living group. Each living group ... to choose your own normal. 2. You get to choose how involved you want

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... , thinking of new ones we could run, asking for safety plans, so on and so ... the list of events we plan on running, and we're beginning to plan to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... enough brain power to type in the code on more time. B E M no N O B E R L

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  at MIT. Why was he responding to this email thread? And why was he on ... call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have ... you’re struggling with right now?  Bryan: I struggle with how to be an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021