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• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... the time to do these hacks. I mean, considering someone is awake at all ... . Hacking Harvard is a popular favorite, and the hack you mention did in fact

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... girls are awesome and MPG is awesome and we like to have as much awesome ... for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... kick to the face. - Scotty in Star Trek often says "Ye cannae change the ... costume he was wearing. - The easiest way to determine Chuck Norris' age is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis ... out to the lounge at one in the morning and see people working. It's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post ... Peterson's picture of the green building lit up in remembrance of those who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... pretty much in disbelief until the recruiter actually called me, gave me ... ’s often a struggle to be just average in most of my technical classes. That

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  opportunity (which turned out to be somewhere in the middle of broad and ... wildland firefighting mask (which is the one we ended up going with). Just to ... balloons to the end of the course using mechanisms we had built in lab

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine ... your classes, a blank slate in the form of a P that equates a C to an A

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... . Doing challenging things outside my comfort zone is the only way to grow

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to stick the landing. I think being in control is something I value a ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange, because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  first date - a list of things that the male is supposed to do, and a list of things that the female is supposed to do - that was written by ... not, however, the sort of living group I would tend to click with in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  entry is to let you know about the live webcast of the competition. It ... needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  . (Although the placement of those windows leaves much to be desired.) [caption ... much harder to soundproof than solid walls, especially when even the ... -new concert hall modeled after the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. Although it is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... similar to the "nerd herd" who shamed me in high school. However, after ... and the people in it as I am. MIT isn't this cut-throat battle to have

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  , MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the ... So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... I had the chance to go to the game. We started off by visiting the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  live Q-and-A to follow. The Q-and-A session is one of the most ... ...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source ... otherwise known in the course catalog as 12.000 - Solving Complex Problems, is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple harmonic oscillations of the pendulum is going to keep whacking the sides of ... doing it right. And so I followed their advice. I tried to make the most

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... MIT 150. I marveled at the large screen toast to MIT by alumni in space ... “unlike any other” place that is MIT, we still had to get back home to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  particular department is the best way to figure out whether you really fit ... : the brain is really cool. You and I carry one around in our heads, and ... never looked back. “There is no human face to the science of physics,” he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005