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

  

  calculator addiction: What if we knew the solution before the calculation? In ... ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Late in February, my friend Ashley '12 forwarded me a notice titled "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... !") but we squeezed and "sorry! excuse me!"d our way in. Flipping through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  I mulled the numbers over in my head, I realized that many of the bright, motivated doctors in the world have never taken serious time off ... .   The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus institutions are both collaborators and competitors: the former, in the sense ... latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  't stifling. Today was stifling. Today was sauna in an oven on the sun. Sweat ... away. In fact, he even began adding his own contributions to the project ... speaking to us in Creole. Marvin, who speaks French, asked him if he spoke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... lowering carbon levels in the atmosphere with carbon sequestration and by ... the bathroom and saw my left eye glaring at me in all its bloodshot

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... adventure known as 2.009. This is the famous capstone class for seniors in ... of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  so I could stand around the track in the athletic center for several ... capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  as coherent as any scene in the Matrix movies that didn't involve ... lovingly wiled away in pre-orientation activities of mostly inconsequential ... day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... , since it wasn't really staying in one place and was making everything ... thought that maybe scotch tape would be a better adhesive in this situation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math people who cannot help but speak in tongues math gibberish. It’s almost inevitable in this little cauldron of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , if aimless. I re-read all the Newbery-winning books I loved in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... work-heavy, which can obviously be used later in life. Also the community

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  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 ... drawing I must preface that I never thought of myself as a drawer. In fact

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on Friday, September 30, but I had to invent what happened in the branches I ... something in the afternoon, eat dinner, then the ending. If it's a linear path

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  first notes of "Love Me More" drifted in, Mitski stepped out, and the ... between the two lovers is steeped in racial and cultural differences. In ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  between thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in writing. specifically, a thesis is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... because people have applied this framework in a broad range of settings; it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is versions away from the Afeefah that is sitting in her childhood bedroom

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are ... correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020