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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... track gave way to deeper tranches of fields and forest. I’ve quickly ... to kill the time.[/annotation] The plan is as follows: I will be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to ... … Pass through Las Vegas (again) on our way to… One day in Joshua Tree ... ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  to "be mobile," in the sense of exchange of information in a mobile ... 't expect so many people to be there -- managers of entire subway lines (1 and ... our work going forward. Examples include new navigation systems, ways to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... would be best to spend an hour doing phone-app math to find my current ... & Wednesday - Procrastinate To be fair, these were the last two days

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all ... -course-meal by myself, and so in a throwback to that first original dinner party ... little more like "DISRESPECT!": This entry brought to you by the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... call to finish up the last few parts of this problem. it'll be an hour at ... collaborators asked if we could hop on a zoom call real quick to go through some

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... disclaim his sentences by saying “Now, I'm a raving atheist, but...,” to ... brilliant observation. It was all a bit absurd, really. On my way to lunch

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  construction zone all the way down Amherst Street to the corner of Ames and ... on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  geek (like me), it's hard not to be fascinated by perfect numbers and ... A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... this year will be published on Tuesday. To make this a little fun, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  financial aid deadline is quickly approaching. Be sure to have all of your documents to the financial aid office by February 15. I haven't forgotten ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  most of my commute to class looking up, absorbed by the scintillating ... . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be ... see myself as being defined by this extremely vivid experience of life

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be ... heart, and I didn't want to make things worse by allowing myself to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case ... admissions office, and they needed to be brought up to speed about student life ... questions were going to be. I imagined a fact request, like "what is the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the ... . Even if your level of Wikipedia-involvement is limited to searching for ... into you, and make sure you maintain a certain level of sanity. To be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  's easy to see how verb conjugation arose the same way. English seems to be ... being lazy speakers. It's a slang contraction for "going to." But if you ... see how "year of" could easily turn to "yearof," much the same way

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  papers and desperately look for excuses to not start studying. A quick ... lunch. 15 minutes later my delicious ramen is ready to be consumed. 1:15pm ... it also means that I'll be out of comission for 3 full days. Time to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  . I listed all the goals, skills, habits, etc. I wanted to have/do by ... people I already talk to lol. I’m trying to be better.     60% Completion ... ’m anemic, but I just could not remember to do it. This ended up being a good

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I figured it would be cool to take ... spoiler, think again. I've been given permission by admissions to deny or ... Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings ... dallas. she acknowledged the need to mourn and grieve and be angry. and ... email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  by working with each other, being introduced to some material in class ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... home with a big box of LEGOs. $1500 worth of LEGOs to be precise. I don

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008