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• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ="as you may have gathered by the use of past tense so far"] And yet ... process of starting a math club, I’m blogging, I’m talking with professors ... is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  . I was dripping with nostalgia by the end of it--Harry Potter was very ... up by the light of The Alchemist. Hacks are great, and I should pay ... EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... self proclaimed "font designer," and thus begins a series of painfully ... MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  think I wrote some quality pieces. Some of them made their way here ... pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of ... fine. It gives the same energy as 18.01. There will always be a weekly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  more with the time-honored: “It’s not the destination, but the process of ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  on your criteria of what's important in a college. This whole process ... got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App. Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit ... colleges in terms of waitlist size, usually keeping one of the proportionally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  . Humanities weren't a thing. By this point, you are most likely tired of me ... by youtube. Or you left this page, though I'm not certain of how you ... ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  better! Evaluation Evaluation is the process of assigning the board a score ... for each piece by counting the possible number of moves for each piece ... negamax version, which takes advantage of the fact that if black is up by 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... machine out of its box today and get it humming before the class of 2006 ... other to that one -- the ground was squishy! The graduates process from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  of work. But by modern journal standards, would you accept this paper ... hindered and facilitated by the global conflicts of the 20th century (WW1, WW ... 're procrastinating on, here’s a large link-dump of blog posts written by the ancients

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... sequences of certain enzymes that produce QS molecules are. I text my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how ... there was a preview button. For all the inconveniences of the analog

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  advice and thoughts about the application process more about some of my ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get everything together so that I have the majority of my applications completed

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  described by Shailendra Raj Mehta. Sixteen of these features are of Indian ... research by allowing them to pursue ownership of inventions made with federal ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep

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

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  'm sure you must be familiar with most of them) how highly do you rank the ... official marksheet....as this is kind of considered to be a big achievement ... ..the top 10 in the whole of india, i guess...it somehow doesnt show on my

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  the process, I forgot to do things for myself, by myself, and with ... , Jenga-ed into the trunk of my roommate's parents’ car. The morning of ... , rearranged the two sets of closet/bed/desk, and halfheartedly unpacked t

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023