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  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... harder and more important than they actually are. Believe in yourself, take

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... Cartesian vectors, except in polar coordinates, so there's a vector pointing in the r direction and a vector pointing "in the 𝛉 direction," which

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third

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

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... perhaps some thoughts about life at MIT too. If you're not as interested in ... some thoughts about life at MIT :). The math in the first part is some

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes that everyone else is getting placed in.  MIT is different from other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... there who have built bottle rockets before or participated in a similar ... design”, the advice of someone who just happened to be hanging out in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... and hacking, in whatever capacity we could within the short time ... they build inside the dorm!). In a sea of mechanical, electrical, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  ) and made me notice more clearly how people communicate here in the US ... taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  obvious, but what was less clear to me was that my hair was also thinning in ... day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Kalamazoo College. You may also be interested in the other stories from The ... visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... , unsurprisingly, How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs, with 7 songs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  abalanzaba sobre Best Buy, intentando comprar televisores y cámaras digitales

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  . This means that I've been studying in smaller, but more frequent and ... devoted strictly to studying. I clear my calendar as well. Finals are my #1 ... wake up (I'm awake enough to concentrate and focus with a clear head) and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  me in the Infinite some days after, it’s clear they’re no longer ... shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags ... arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  my mind—so clear, they felt real—but they would get lost in translation ... drawing class Every Tuesday evening, right as the sun was setting in ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... people around. but, this is supposed to be different, right? i am in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  convenience. - When I was younger, so much younger than today (in high school ... loved both words and numbers, but the former came more naturally. In no ... ’m not saying that I never needed anybody’s help in any way, but I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the [annotation note="I think we're at about 320 now. Four singles were lost in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  much more useful embedded in the names of the pictures on the website ... in real life, who has this really impressive, almost encyclopedic ... still remember when it happened. We were in some random building after

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways ... ="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving them in to make searching for the actual classes easier if anyone wants

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024