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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  -step calculation: . The latter formula is easier to understand and much more ... smell the aroma? Formal Model: Formally, the answer to that, , is ... problem is way off. Despite the complexity, it fails to provide a reasonable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... that enables one little boy to breathe in a hospital in the suburbs of ... you who want to come to MIT and explore in the name of all of this

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  adaptation in general is dark, cynical and hopeless. I think the only way to ... as a character? The effect to which this is addressed in the movie is ... blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  life is about the day to day, the work you do each day to build towards a ... eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  people seem to think that the most important thing they'll learn in college ... most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... us in the Admissions Office the weekend is more about getting ready for ... that are most important to you, the parent, so don't be afraid to ask for

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  ones did, in the sense that I’ve had to do much more struggling and ... taking that seminar to learn about the ways in which math is applicable to physics. The main trend I have noticed is that math in college is much more

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

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of beauty to be found here. The sunshine drenches everything in ethereal ... to two companies, one in Cambridge, Massachusetts and one in the San

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  :  "Success is to be measured not so much by the positions that one has ... to show you why MIT is not the goal. From The New York Times, &ldquo ... , because I never seem to pick boring applications out of the pile. In fact, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  works the way it does. It is the best, hardest, and most fun big-game in ... and need to start over. That is a kind of type 3 fun. But in the Big ... 🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 3. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick." ...and ... I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... boundaries. I have to learn. The following is a fragment I wrote this summer

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  to be the one to decide what the best use of your time is. I'd say most ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  Yes! Undocumented and DACA applicants submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having ... the meaning of e - you could have picked any other base to work with, in ... fraction of e is trivial to remember. 3. the formulas for e are easier less

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  general, the food is much spicier than I’m used to, but I still think most ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... intuition, was able to straighten the 1/4 in mild steel shaft to near

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  not. But the feeling is much more mellow now than it was in our first ... still feel that ‘did we come to the right school?’ feeling in our freshman ... to the SAA, we completely immersed ourselves in the Arts at MIT! These

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  It's Q&A time! Ajit asked: "who is the person in the 5th picture ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or area of the dorm you'd like to live in. After that, certain floors, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005