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  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... ...no joke. But I think the fact that we can name any precise location on campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  strategic and some less so, about how to solve this problem. Déspues, I, my co ... doing essentially nothing (I'm @ing myself), other MIT students have hit ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  easter eggs in the animation! ;)"]really cool.[/annotation] I can’t think ... in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  down the hall in hysterics increase. How does Jon react to the added ... I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... that they're worthy of MIT, and prove to themselves that they can handle

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... in the acknowledgement of lessons and truths I wished were axioms ... psychological ones. In my second blogpost on MIT Admissions, I talked about a grad

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... Houston explained how working at startups in high school and his frustration ... companies. She explained in fascinating detail how her lab developed tiny

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  . --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... if I got in, hear if I got funding, etc. I still believe, however, that ... to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the ... Like MIT, Cambridge also gets its share of tourists and visitors. I

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... 's mattress from her room in EC, but when i saw how decrepit it was, i decided ... how i'd feel if i were living in a dorm with less culture. part of me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  pitches. So far as I can tell, people weren’t really forming words, just ... to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don ... good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  our usernames back in those days), I chose madmatt as my username. It ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting you choose your own email address (you can laugh at your friends at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in ... home to London, and while I stood in line to board the plane some man ...     (Photo credit for these two goes to Julie H. '11) I was amazed by how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel ... because I was able to appreciate what I have in my life in a way that I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  in Comparative Media Studies, class of 2013, whaddup), I'm always ... sciences with the rest of MIT. I’ll discuss the history of how one ... Venice.” Unfortunately, we didn't videotape the talks this year, so I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a ... my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  both cornerstones of my experience in Taipei last summer. i got this ... dozens of these sometime early in the year, so i grabbed 3(rd) and put them ... our floor's massive merch order that came sometime in IAP. i bought a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ork_hard.shtml I think I can, I think I can (Bryan): How do you have time to have fun? http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...nk_i_can.shtml Standing out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video ... Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  insecurity. I remember sitting in Alan's office (surrounded by empty cans of ... receive any exam booklets." Prof. Guth smiled and asked whether I was in the ... into the wrong exam hall, I said "Um, yes. 8.012 is DEFINITELY in this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014