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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... scenario? Our intuition will be to simply pick the scenario that saves the ... precisely one life. The maximum principle will be unable to choose one over

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... the homework, the pace is forced to be slow enough that you can still

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  this in the most honest, sincere way possible. I'm not trying to be rude ... will write the CNC code for you, upload that code to a CNC machine, then ... showed above at LMP, are able to be operated manually.) The cool thing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... the phone over to my mom, because he didn't seem to know how to handle a ... . And anyone else who cares to be in the pictures I've taken. *Speaking

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  and all, but that does not have to be where the heart of the ... , and I hope you don't turn down the Skype interview if you happen to be ... get to know you more off-the-paper. This is not a business school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  ! Be warned - in the time to come, I will probably be blogging a fair ... mean somewhere along the middle of your journey). So this will be my ... you to repeat the same mistakes that I've made. I probably would not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  -loop will I be in the fall? I'm afraid I'm going to miss a great opportunity ... being challenged and forced to grow. I like the opportunities I have here ... !" Roli, I hope I answered the "why" part above. :) As to the rest

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

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control ... whether I failed or passed. But I just know that I tried my hardest to fill

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you ... will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  of the Weinberg Lab. To be honest, I'm actually incredibly jealous (who ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... crazy than usual. After my bioengineering seminar, I ran over to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  although I would like to be comforting: 1) I worry that my words will feed the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be ... I apply to graduate school, this failed quantum exam will manifest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  again to learn -- not only math and why the hell the Heisenberg ... , trying to be good at a difficult class, when I know I will not be ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  to take the form of, oh, I'm not going to give my best—it can be ... puzzle. The testsolvers rated it pretty badly, and I had to agree. It's not ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  emotional investment in the relationship. I do not believe my friends to be ... believe them to be in my head and now I find it difficult to resolve the ... . That the men in my life are now destined to be this. To be, for lack of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  with Teachers creators. If you would like to be involved in the process ... many of the professors actually are, hopefully you will be less hesitant ... how powerful the videos were and knew I wanted to be a part of the team

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few ... Financial Aid and that’s great! Applications are handled through the ... aid after February 15th and it will not hurt your chances of receiving

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  on the internet did not turn out to be helpful. You can find things ... would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I ... available to student-kind: the friendly neighborhood vending machine. But

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to be Stephen Hawking in Random Hall, which is probably why he doesn't do

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  the Nashua area of NH. Despite being very close to one another, the ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... particular areas that you might not have had the chance to flesh out in greater ... declined an interview, but that's not the only reason why you should accept

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007