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  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  ’s doing it just for college admissions, who’s for real, and does it even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  our office--the other two have both already graduated from college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  hear that sometimes they have cookies. As an MIT student and as a college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  candy, but there were other college students trick-or-treating just like

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  + conservatory students from the Longy School of Music of Bard College. The MA kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  of college life so now the winding hallways don’t seem so hopeless, the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  classes from Stanford students. Yale, Columbia, Duke, Rice, Boston College

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Thursdays, which may sound luxurious to you non-college-kids, but that's about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  college admission process. Give them MIT’s list of qualities and start

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  evening right before a college semester starts: hanging out with friends who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  one of my good friends at Wellesley College told me a year ago. Grades

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  -reported grades match what is on your transcript. If you have taken college, online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions, for one thing. MIT finals, for another (AHHHH). Deadlines for regular decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty With Data, CC poster mihcal1 made the following compelling comment: So basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  staff are about to enter college. One of them was first introduced to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  Naviance, teachers should see MIT on the list of colleges to which these

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010