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  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up ... . (Minor spoiler for Paige’s post: You can represent points as coordinates ... shows up everywhere in mathematics. Wikipedia lists a few dozen famous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  basically the only board game on floorpi that i would end up playing for the ... 't line up well enough for us to play on floorpi often anymore, so a ... 've[/annotation] known cj for 3.5 years now. though the first 6 months it was very much not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for ... album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... for the first time, with a short story I wrote over winter break. It was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  up for games. i've been getting burnt out by many things, these days ... or sipb? i used to care about them more. i wanted to fight for their existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had ... being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college ... to put them all up, and then I thought I might share with you what I ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note ... friend who had also fled campus for SD in March,[/annotation]so we shared ... on campus, so we headed straight for our dorm, Next House. I'd been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  when I slept for 14 hours a day and came out a mostly different person ... small thing. Here's what I've been up to: 1. Having a job This summer ... at the end of all this, I'll write them up and post them somewhere (on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  , thinking about final assignments and projects for the semester, thinking ... boxed and stored away for three months. i moved back [annotation note="real home"]home[/annotation] for a week, where i was mostly alone, besides the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  can say for certain is that we started this fall semester again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming ... up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  . wow. First up, 11.125: Understanding and Evaluating Education CI-H HASS ... quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more ... years back, for example. When I was practicing with an instructor, did she

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  set screenings that perfectly summed up everything we love in animation ... was that we found out what the final for the class is: DO ANYTHING and ... HILARIOUS (and free) comedy show. Not many people showed up so it was a great

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  ’s basketball team turning up strong! If “athletics” isn’t the first word that ... sacrifice academics for athletics, and very rarely the opposite, either. A big ... makes for athletics. Despite what may happen at other schools, MIT does

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... . It's time for the next year, whether that's college, senior year ... have you guys been up to? Remember to call home and all that, and visit

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  Spooner, who Wikipedia advertises as "notable for absent-mindedness". This ... spoonerisms (or oonerspisms for the similarly absent-minded), and at this rate ... of rite of passage for computer science students, and I'd spent both

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  during Convocation four years ago. Tomorrow they will gather together for ... . one reason is so that, when i get up every morning, and get ready to go ... * humane, capable *and* considerate, etc. the ring is not necessary for this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  boring (to me). things i did "just for fun" ended up teaching me very ... there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day ... approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with ... acquired by Broadcom for $1.24 billion. The competition occurs three times a ... , some for the first time. The companies presenting this year were

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  off, but when light comes in my window I wake up optimistic) and I ate ... the semester is stressful for everyone. For me, it's a plodding ... dollars for coffee; I like working in the library, but it was closed today

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... Wonder’s “Visions” for the third time. It’s the perfect soundtrack. 11 ... that maybe it’s too hard for the class and not the best assignment. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015