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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your ... -para-n-butyl-blah-blee-blah-blee-blah" and get a 98 on your first exam. Emboldened by such an experience, I ... themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  ?" Q: What does an economist do? A: A lot in the short run, which amounts ... (all years encouraged to attend!) If you are a sophomore, come meet your ... from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  Shortly after Kidist's post, we were both added to a massive Messenger group ... This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... improved immensely. I was able to  get my checkoff, a live session where we ... a huge factor in that. I'm able to communicate clearer and quicker to

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

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... remaining 14,000,000+ say. To plug in the precise numbers, given a pool of 14 ... the problem set (and shortly had to develop a randomized algorithm that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  . Get the inside scoop before it hits the pages of "Wired." TechTV: Did ... -speed films. There's also a general MIT video gateway. MIT's home page: It ... International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... fact that you applied to these great schools says a lot about your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... only 13 pages, here. Your student government in high school probably ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... moving to the west coast in about six weeks to start as an adjunct lecturer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... have been some pretty epic molecular wars that take place in my 70-page

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  anything, or to dress in a particular way. My bet is the answer is "no" on ... pants, closed shoes, and no hanging jewelry) to get in the door. However ... of your application in to Admissions on time, and if you happen to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to get done… ESP Retreat: Every semester, ESP has a retreat to talk ... 2020, I continued a tradition started in 2019 where ESP members went to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  grad student for a while. At minimum two years, even more if I get in to ... my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a ... in-depth analysis of a TV Tropes page for T.L. Taylor's Games and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  Cloves and a Chicken. Basically you sear the chicken, cover it in oil, toss in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  raise no shame."]to answering lots of questions,[/annotation] even in a ... why with such a short timeframe and an attempt to be open-sourced to as ... ? Is there a way to view vector and matrix values at each point in a deep

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to ... ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and make sure every page was laid out correctly, but also to steer the design

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  a guy offers to install Athena on your computer, he's hitting on you ... intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  thoughts to myself. I’d get lost in my thoughts on teaching and math, and ... education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022