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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  up quite a bit. I really wish I'd been single for my freshman fall. my ... -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... , though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  , and that feels...frustrating, for some reason. Growing up, the nature ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  me happy When dining has my favorite muffins for breakfast Waking up in time for breakfast Naked brunch Regular brunch Sushi in ... would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ended up taking two Political Philosophy classes this semester, one at MIT ... really cool (future) grad school for teachers which relies on Competency ... artefact for the challenge, a “bad” test that WW Academy students (or, rather

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to ... that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... school did not prepare you for a basic survival skill. Your group was the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  principles and am trying to make up for it in efficiency. More concretely, I ... and a sundress. In less than 48 hours, I will be in Houston, both for the SASE national conference and for the warm weather. I'll (hopefully

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most ... agree. However, for the purposes of this blog and my future ones, I will ... (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  After rocking the jeans + sweater/t-shirt look for almost an entire ... molded, semi-precious or precious metal for which they paid large sums of ... excited for the new status symbols upon their fingers, but each Brass Rat is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  games when they are growing up, like playing house and things like that ... Burchards for awhile, but I always thought, "well, I'll just write about it ... , hahaha) we had our final session for our tenure as Burchard Scholars, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert ... Recess for the worship of spherical projectiles and various incarnations of ... English? Inevitably, you end up saying something like, “The square root of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... mind, I came up with this list: 1. Skydiving 2. "No. No, we're just ... movies and actually discussing what I should do for my birthday, it was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany. Anyway, check back tomorrow for some info on classes and/or a map of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn ... lunch hour and get me ingredients for cookies and pie! So I guess instead ... 've been working in Morgan's lab for the last three years, which makes me one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  , for that matter) of Dorm Rush. As a result, they aren't quite sure what ... other options, but he professed his undying love for 3rd East and ... the time and resources allotted for next year's Rush would be cut in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  ; though you can keep doing this until you’ve used up all your vectors. The ... is true no matter how you drew the vectors you picked for your zonotope ... number of pairs of vectors. Can you come up with an explanation why

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Education about Sexuality and Speaking Up for Relationship Empowerment, and is ... not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on ... Morality. It’s a very “MIT” class, counting for both my Philosophy and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... legally prohibited for decades. As the law stands now, the only reason we may narrowly consider race for individual students in our process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  such opportunities are available), (c) who has been suspended (for a ... for math/science?" You're welcome to submit supplemental recs ... grounds for a second look at the application (or even termination) if the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  your breath fogs up with you breathe out? Cool, but only the first time ... -student-friends for suggestions, and I’m too lazy to format this in any coherent way, so ... 12!"][/annotation] Back at home, we use spoons and forks for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019