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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  will probably impress you more than the title of the award, not to ... pointer whose probability of stopping in any interval is proportional to the ... of X? Be careful to specify the function completely. b) What is the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... School which is a 20 min drive to the middle of the city, or Cary High ... , plenty of extracurriculars and all of the APs I would want to take, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  calculate the mean and standard deviation of your votes. ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  lead to the advancement of quantum computing, which could aid scientists ... , Boris Alexeev proved a theorem related to the theory of automata, the mathematical basis for the field of pattern matching. Boris worked to determine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  . Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather ... have used a calculator to convert the times, by multiplying the decimal ... Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap ... exposure to the infamous world of infomercials. Early morning and late night ... the low, low price of $19.95 wasn’t enough to convince me that those

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete ... to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  checking the mail, but y'all are smart, so good for you. But by extension of ... As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  supreme grand champion of the environment myself... ...I was excited to ... changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... experience life on the east coast. A lot of kids from my senior class went to ... absolutely loved the feeling of being around all those smart kids. The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night you'll see MIT kids like you never knew them before! Some of the most ... difference from the stage to you to just nigh the electric breakdown of air

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  opportunities. The goal of the event was to help survey the kind of work done at ... calculation— “net present value”—has come to guide modern thinking about the ... to the increasing polarization of U.S. politics? Let’s look at the data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... about the action.” To which I respond, “How clever of you, I was just ... noticed a box of books in one of the hallways. To be precise, the box of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  person. Some of them had stories of the lengths they had gone to celebrate ... airs later this summer, will fall prey to the usual stereotypes of crazed ... in the book. Psychiatrist David Jones of MIT advises parents to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... steps. Get up. Grab a change of clothes. Wait for the shower to ... to dresser. Grab change of clothes. Walk to bathroom. Turn on the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

    anyways this is the extent of my memory so i’m going to quit YAPPING about ... than in college. the experience of living [annotation note="10 if you ... "]rpm[/annotation] dinner. the timing of it was lowkey early for me (4:30, considering that

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  pointed out to MIT’s provost that the Duke of Edinburgh's housing allowance ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... all of the above and [annotation note="feels bad to use this phrase when ... take me back to the past. Here are my symptoms of nostalgia

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  at most 1.5% to the bottom line. There was a lot of skepticism ... the Field   "To me, this was all personal challenge. I ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015