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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  number of paragraphs, I will attempt to summarize the common features of ... intimidated by the great scholar. Just last week the king had stood up to honor him during the morning assembly. But you are determined to get into

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  blogs. The classes I took fall and spring as two blogs to be published at the end of the respective semesters, the programs I did over IAP to be published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Just to be clear, the prospect of drawing a human body intimidates. the ... willing to fail, and predictably, my first attempt was sort of pathetic ... looked like a human being! Over the next week, our assignment was to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT ... , do not list the following: Being a great boyfriend/girlfriend; 20 hours ... NOT EVER BELIEVE THAT IF YOU ARE A STUDENT OF COLOR THAT YOU WILL BE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the ... walked in to find this on the chalkboard:

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  Research Science Institute, it became very easy to fall into the trap of not ... Here's the thing about me: I'm naturally an introvert. Talking to ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  seem to be so far "ahead," well that's almost certainly not the case ... math, and math with computer science. I do pure math, which will be the ... school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  from the hat, we knew it just had to be "Mitra Lzhpb*n!xobile" (name ... 's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Ahhh, New York City, winning the ... subject. This entry is gonna be mostly pictures. So, like the good traveler

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . For the project to be successful, we had to beat them. ICE is fairly ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... biological engineering. To "prove your worth" to the department and earn a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  those of you who have yet to arrive, no need to fret!  There will be ... it's not for you, we will have other events!  Next week there will be ... service projects.  However, this year I decided to apply to be a mentor for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  , after all, to keep being tolerant, when you feel like others will not do ... is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... CPW event tomorrow, and then I went to Meet the Bloggers, in which I met

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

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  reading, but hopefully I'll be able to keep up. The polisci nerd in me is ... and shelf that we planned on in the first place. (Our mirror used to be ... not ideal.) The next day, we spontaneously decided to rearrange all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  couldn’t be closer to the truth. As I packed up most of my clothes as the ... was not a Course 6 when I was getting the shirts, not too sure again why ... experience in a paragraph, so I guess I will be left with no choice but to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  this post as a platform to rant about why 6.005 should really be ... before, too. I don’t think there’s anyway for MIT to not be hard, but I ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  ’ve got a bajillion things to do. And today, I will not finish all of them ... college will most definitely not get you through it. And being rejected does ... ’ll see that this person will be enough to keep on motivating you and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  problem and once I figure it out, I will be sure to post an informative ... Mitra and put up a really simple temporary design for the time being. So I made the very simple banner you see above. The next step was to upload

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  have to tell the truth. Your room doesn't look like a 'I could be an ... information about me, I don't think. It was also weird to be reminded of the ... prove myself to the same coaches who said I’d never be “more than okay

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  be able to honestly say that, but I will at the very least try very ... , though, so I’ll be more mindful of my workload in the future. I’m not ... found it to be a good review, with the added benefit of formalizing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  . We’re so used to trying our best, succeeding no matter what, being the ... twist behind my back, I thought my life was over. Not being able to walk ... ’s a balance to be found between brushing off the bad vibes and pushing

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  above a majority) to be correct. A single majority answer being the wrong ... incorrect, then ALG fails. It thus helps to compute the probability that at ... /(N4) = log N / N3. This is equivalent to the probability that ALG fails

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017