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  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  that balance, the sweet spot. I've forced my thinking caps to engage at ... along the Infinite or the tunnels, I've run into so many people I hadn ... stories from him and our alumni and all the extraordinary things they've

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  released, and dozens she never officially did. I’ve spent an insane number of hours on YouTube watching her music videos, interviews, song mashups. I’ve ... first line: I’ve never gone with the wind, just let it flow. It was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  ones did, in the sense that I’ve had to do much more struggling and ... useful, unless you've actually learned the exact material from the class ... lot more difficult to grasp mathematical concepts that I've forgotten or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  voice.” I’ve merely existed today rather than lived in it, operating with a mild indifference, which is more or less how I’ve started out most of 2017. I’ve been trying to fight this feeling of indifference, of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  just reading the signs, which of course, are in Chinese. But once I’ve ... truly a foreigner. For one thing, I’ve been to those places so many times ... cultural identity, And third, in the United States I’ve also always felt kind

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... environment, and many other concerns. I’ve even received a few questions from ... introverted to make friends. These questions were hard to answer, because I’ve

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  (history[x][y],"\n") def paragraphtwo(): print("Does this sound advanced? It would've sounded ... .\n") def advice(a,b,c): print(a,"If you've done lesson 1 anywhere else, don ... -based one because ", b,"Don't start another until you've finished.\n") print

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  . At this point, I've probably gone far too far in the opposite ... small (I've heard that the Suffolk County Jail tunes into WMBR at ... mention it here out of excitement for my upcoming class. I've taught

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing ... , neither happy nor sad, just there. And because I’ve somehow become not

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  these spurts of time that feel like a great, cool intake of air after you’ve ... semester at MIT, and I’ve struggled a lot with Biology, but I’ve also been ... those impacts. I’ve never really sat down and thought to myself, “I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to ... Handel and Haydn. But I've never studied it. I am completely aware (and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  right now). Instead, let's talk about all the movies I've been watching ... watch a lot of the movies I've been wanting to see (or haven't had the ... have no excuses! (I've also realized that there is a Spongebob gif for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  the effort I've poured into everything in my life thus far." I ... we've left. Another example. One of my best friends in High School ... all the crazy math techniques we've been learning. I KNOW I learned a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  appears EXACTLY once a second, and we've marked up the paper into second ... - and see whether I've found a pulsar. This is the kind of plot I look at ... . The whole column is the "sum" of all those slices of paper - we've

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  math for math's sake, I've found 18.02 has swayed me to the course 18 ... essays and what it is I consistently do wrong. To top it all off, I've ... development in third world countries. While I've currently dropped the seminar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... hippy, and the two families are rivaling business empires. Now that we’ve ... -oh wait, who’s that hot chick? I’ve never met this Juliet girl before but I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  It's unfair, I admit: I've rhapsodized aplenty about Manhattan's food ... , and you've got the perfect date. Fine, you can get the three ... vegetable that I've ever witnessed. Black Sheep takes the humble potato and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  drug dealers, and the antics that ensue. What I've seen and read of the ... , at 13,800 feet. That's 4200 meters. You've already calculated, I know ... with some coolio research (but I've got to keep the actual project mum

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  information session, waiting to here all about two schools I've never been to ... I've attended, I guess because I'm no longer exploring schools, but it's been a long time since I've gone through the admissions process so I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  ," "computer science," or "physics." If you know anything about MIT, you've ... charge of 2A that the electives they've chosen contribute to a cohesive ... glad I did. Because of the flexibility, so far I've been able to take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007