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  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  could’ve gotten me into MIT. Because of the OCW preparation, I got to ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway” person.[annotation note="Is that a type of person? I don't actually know..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  physically and mentally. I learned a lot of lessons that have forever changed my MIT experience. This semester I did all of my psets early. I ... , making sure I had understood everything. I got into a good rhythm and went

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to ... Garment District and got $10 rainboots, and dug through piles of discarded electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  pretty thorough, it leaves out a few important details of MIT’s graduation ... game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  those of you who want a peek into how the different MIT residences choose ... As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  What happens when you pack hundreds of students armed with paper airplanes and toilet paper into a lecture hall? ... Well, it starts with one ... paper airplanes and just start throwing paper into the air and catapulting

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt ... visits MIT E) It was an unusually gorgeous day in December (it got into ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community ... 's Boston Globe had the news of the passing of another special member of our ... MIT alums speak of him reminds me of many people from my MIT experience

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about ... Street, passing Senior House (another undergrad dorm). A couple of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts ... we do throughout the year into one gigantic weekend extravaganza with an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... writing (with more words), but my work builds upon some of my high school interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... ".   a parody of Animal Planet     This week on MIT Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  pair of heels on when I was 6. Maybe even younger. I charged into my ... as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... up your psets, perhaps)? You may also have heard of Gleevec, a ... Leukemia. During the tour, I got to see one of the four High Throughput

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  slam itself into the brick wall of MacGregor and break itself. This scene ... . Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... MIT, I took a train, which was a rather nice mode of transportation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021