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  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points ... points define a line. Now suppose you draw two lines on a sheet of paper ... Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  by, are a couple of variations on some found here. Cheers, Rob ... While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Glimpses of Haiti Just a small fraction of the things I saw while in Port-Au-Prince.

  

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle ... the other night, on another casual thought spiral about the innumerable delights of cookies, I realized how many idioms about cookies there are, if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  think the reality of the situation is that I won't be able to hold on to ... with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS ... in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening around campus, but for many students, family is still a huge part of their ... week, and probably more frequently depending on how stressed out I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  on too many activities This one is a hard one because, of course all ... the class material (6.006, for example) and then, on top of that, would ... on the world out of everything I’ve done so far in my whole life. This

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  work with my homework for a few hours on end. I got a lot of homework ... It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I've done and call them blog entries! Hooray! I know a lot of people are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  they should put on the team, and one of the tests was themed Anatomy & ... pursuing a research project on their own by teaching the fundamentals of ... . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21" and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  . We're on schedule to release MIT admissions decisions online at 12:00PM EST on Saturday, December 15. (Decisions will also be sent via postal ... of the following criteria: You have applied for freshman admission (not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  knitted for me by Ruth '07? So, there's this report for 10.28 on the effect of hydrocarbon-coated magnetic nanoparticles on increasing diffusivity ... First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  sits right in front of me? i am bored i am chewing on a mat, staring at ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these ... the mud so concerned about right and wrong The giver of permission

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  students worked it on the runway: With a team of over a hundred Theta ... The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... Sadoway. Speaking of Professor Sadoway, there was a nice article about him ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... staying warm on a budget is that it's all about layering. Not only does this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015