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  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then ... ; far be it from me to weigh in on it with empirical evidence. But what I ... , to which I ought to ascribe any ostensible brilliance (after all, it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  eerie, as I've never seen that before. But it's good to know that MIT ... knew that. I need to get back to it - more updates when there's something ... It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  they) taught me to see it. When I do the best I can, reading applications ... writing jokes about it. When I came here, and had to learn to tell the ... thing to do is, however naive and unreachable that hope might be, it's in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  money away you can make an awful lot of it! This is not to say that for ... . According to its founder, Internet entrepreneur Ben Nelson, Minerva is ... education to those who cannot presently achieve it is extra awesome. And yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  open Q&A. We'll take as many questions as we can and do our best to ... don't have any questions find it interesting and helpful to hear other ... and California. I'll try to post some photos, too, so you can see what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  only one measurement, and refuses to let you use his scale more than once ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  not to read until I had graduated. Having unearthed it from beneath the ... decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my ... it did. To start, I will describe two snapshots at two different

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  should you do if you missed it? Well, obviously, you first need to know who ... .253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that ... may want to consider doing the "completely optional" essay (really, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  that more special, right? My first thought was to go skydiving. It turns ... by the time I had actually gotten around to planning out 07/07/07 it ... , but it made me slightly rethink my plan. I'd have to go for smaller

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... that I wouldn't have wanted to switch high schools, since leaving it at ... -liberal-in-a-red-state part. It's probably the closest thing I had to really being part of a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  When I saw this video back in late April, it was instantly copied to ... longest to make, but it was rewarding, because every time I finished a verse, I was able to watch it, thinking the same thing: "this is so cool!" I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  Tennessee, who can tell you everything you need to know about rock tumbling ... can draw HORSES (!), but prefers to ride a bike, and is dating Harry ... Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  even thought, hey, everyone will be wearing duct tape. What can I do to ... , saying, "Thanks for the info; although it may seem strange to care about ... real meal, but it can be kind of hard with a cramped schedule. As I see

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  department office. I rummage through my bag but I can’t find it. Oh, yes. I ... seems that now my body is out of its initial shock and ready to process ... ago when we first arrived. It's incredible, to say the least. Right

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... of thinking about life post-grad, it's unexpectedly led to a lot of ... just want to go home.” Now, three years later, a part of me can’t bear to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... the final or do the final project but you can make it up some time in ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady ... Dives! This trip, we're trekking to all corners of campus, trying the all-you-can ... . Partially, because it's the closest to me, but mainly because it ALWAYS has a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  6.001 seems to be unique in just how it manages to pull it off ... whether or not it's possible to calculate something in finite time. At the ... 't really like the new curriculum, but for the most part, it seems to me that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... . Are there enough places to eat? Do our traditions seem cool to you? Can ... central part of your college life, wherever you choose to pursue it. My

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  exhilarating. And because no amount of words can do justice to just how great it ... younger cousins to over-treating myself to Hyderabadi biryani, it was so ... stand on the terrace to take it all in playing with sparklers in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019