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• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  : up/down, left/right, and forwards/back. The number of these directions ... areas of study in math, in particular single-variable and multivariable ... independent of our [annotation note="i.e. the notion of time and space"] "space

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... impression that I had already seen the museum and it wasn't that great. It was ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  called the "externship" program. i did an externship last IAP, and you can ... digital publication working on real, creative stuff, and since my micro ... MIT. I've kept up with people and even found time to do some additional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... flexible highlighting, font colors, etc.) and structure which didn't match

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ...  hours[/annotation] of practice and preparation, the stars in charge of determining ... fan and internships started getting cancelled left and right because of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation ... have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of ... life together in 2.05 (Thermodynamics) either. Oh, and of course, there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will ... opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  spent Western Blotting at midnight*, sleeping till noon, and hauling my ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... 't graduate if you don't know how they work ;) ) - and now I'm sitting here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I ... Must-Do's. So far, dim has been summed roughly every other weekend, and I ... . Dim Sum, like problem sets and arguably Communism, works best when done

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention, by Guy Deutscher, and it was awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... Hawaii and coordinator at an open science nonprofit. As it so happened, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end ... trip, for three days last summer, and for a week during spring break as ... ="101765" image3="101764" image4="101763" /] I took my last final in the Spring and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post ... ) and her husband in person for the first time. Our cast of performers was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the ... : soo we sat together and brainstormed how we can get away with having

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and ... very kind and enthusiastic. Apparently, MIT IDs grant you free admission

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large ... email threads from this IAP, and I honestly think we did better than usual

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  for assignment submission and grading. I like gradescope more than other ... Regrade" button and a little text box appears where they can write a note to ... happened over and over again. There are a ton of pset graders, so we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... me cringe, and this often works against me. I definitely didn’t shorten

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  've been reading this book called "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman and in it he talks about an intuitive, impulsive System 1 and a ... style, my System 2 is being used. It's slower and more methodical. I type

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about ... math and my own abilities. After taking 18.02 and 18.03, I just wasn't stellar at it anymore, probably because I didn't study enough, and mostly

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014