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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  -sided die, the probability of getting a number smaller than 3 is 2/6. Now ... -number comparator: the simple ability to say things like “2 is smaller than ... decides that 2 is indeed smaller than 3. The problem is, if we get unlucky

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... geek points built up to get some of the cool expensive stuff (if I didn't still want to save them up!). The point is, $100 of prize money wasn

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  cure cancer. 3)Stick to it. By far the hardest part. It's easy to get ... you go to schedule your week you don't have to try and remember all the ... something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT ... when I came to Campus Preview Weekend, I liked the place. I liked the way ... your blog so I was just wondering what your major is and why you chose to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ? Her? You don't get to do that." and it shut me up real quick. I forgot ... when I had to do group projects with the people I had tried my best ... blinked. Processed. Blinked again. I get to just not come to school in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  the difference if you don't let others on to your reasoning), you can ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  cluster by the door; one is clamped to the table beside the gas ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a ... -emailed them. After that, the turnaround was pretty quick. I went to zoom

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read ... all the way to a laundry machine and put it in the laundry machine and ... Yeah… This is on here because that even though you deny it to your peers

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly ... to the MIT Class of 2013!), that you're declining our offer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  found our way to the street. We ended up two large lots away from where we had parked our cars, but eventually found our way back to the rest of ... -  and finally found our way to the trail head!  It was an adventure

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive urge to blog about my shoes. Understand, reader, that I had journeyed by ... .How to assert your domination over the Physical Education Lottery, which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The ... students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting ... last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  ; this is the best sick week ever only vacuously, by truth of it being the ... . so you're diseased. Being sick at MIT is no fun. Along with the ... this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  . Wow. I’m already half way done. I only have two more years to make the ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... thing I’m slowly learning is: Don’t judge a good decision by how the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... ’s sudden shift from oh-the-transition-from-the-Neolithic-to-the-Holocene-is-indeed-the-most-interesting-thing-I’ve-thought-about-all-day to the-world-as-I-know-it-is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ). Though I admittedly spent way too much time googling “what is the ... ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into the people search; 2) point your web browser to http ... The Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way out the door. Formally known

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  you is to get in and then receive your award.']clearly communicable ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up ... and technology, and to make it accessible to the best students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  best measure would be to get some sleep and just watch the fireworks from ... , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... after crossing the threshhold. How did we get these tickets? Arup '08 is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  you to make the best choices for yourself when it comes to your own ... way this woman describes things is just… mesmerizing, almost to the ... below is the kind of entertainment that makes me feel alive. Don’t get me

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020