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  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  of the extent to which people here are open to learning for the sake of ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this ... commented, “Oh, MIT. My siblings went there,” and proceeded to talk to us

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the ... Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... through my time at the 'tute. Two years down, and two more to go. Since then, another year has passed, and I have another one to go. Oh my god time is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  for EA applicants. This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will show what materials we have processed for you. We ... evaluated to give you time to send along another copy. There are still more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone ... MIT, with a unique talent for both writing and astrophysics. Perhaps you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  returned to Finland and set a new 10K world record that stood for 13 years ... bed for hours, playing games, watching sports, etc. But one not-quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  formulaic approach to life for the purpose of college admissions. I may have ... their passion for math. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to sit ... in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Technology Review. The manuscript book is for scratch work on PSETS. How to ... computer program ever. GAMIT How to Get Around MIT, the one stop shop for ... ? Let's go on a tour! High School Yearbook For those nostalgic moments

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased about 6%. Midyear Report: The Midyear Report is on schedule to be ... good time for you to check up on the status of your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  -like aloofness. One day, I decided to test their reputation for myself. “Hey there ... Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... symbols they use when they’re too lazy to write out full words. Are we even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... for 45 minutes and then go back to packing, before we knew it we'd been ... increasingly turning over and over the knowledge that I would have to leave. But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  traditions. And to celebrate--and mentally prepare for this frenzied weekend ... MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago ... weekend baby!!! Some people may sneer at how MIT folks seem married to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  't officially registered for the marathon (there are a couple barriers to entry ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman ... War. Ok, that's about it for me. I look forward to sharing my ... Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the notes i took in (another) week but it was midterm week so it's just crib sheets

  

  , because the first time I made this blog I created a note sheet for 2.001, the first version of this class. Our professor encourages us to think of ... -elasticity. We were allowed one page of notes, front to back, which you can see

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my brain itch. I was going for Dali's "Los Elefantes", but of course I had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017