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• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in ... similar to the "nerd herd" who shamed me in high school. However, after

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  into complacency but i have to finish these things swirling in my head so ... -ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6 ... and tests swirl in my head. they make me forget what's outside of campus

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... high school (duh), and most people had to fight to get the opportunities ... everybody could get a 100% or something, so people take it upon themselves to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It ... cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... over to 66, descend the stairs (as detailed in the last entry), and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  trying to get p-set in, and overall, starting off the day really late, and ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the ... obviously, I was desperately trying to pack in as many food groups as I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  . Applications to engineering In addition to being fun to think about, duality is ... duality to analyze electrical circuits. In physics, electric fields ([latex ... voltages in the original circuit correspond to currents in the dual circuit

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... dress and sandals (in contrast to my usual comfy T-shirt and shorts ... 've included some supplemental powerpoint slides to hopefully fill in any gaps or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... in my freshman seminar that I wanted to build a steel table. It took ... (referenced to the floor). Woot! Anyway, here it is; the picture was taken in a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... 2028. Getting to “meet” so many capable, compassionate students through ... comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  should feel lucky that we even get to bake apples anymore." But I didn ... of six people working together to play this Ricercare tomorrow in 21M ... . Heck, the only time I even spent in lab today was when I snuck over to my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts ... .009. I want to be back at MIT and swing on the rope swing in the East ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  is the villain. That’s not to say he was a bad guy in the classical ... I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  to win their second NEWMAC championship Take that in: your MIT friends ... saw how girls in my sorority would leave for a weekend and return as ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures ... to do. I have lecture twice a week. In recitations, a non-tenured faculty member or lecturer gets up in front of a group of about 15-20 of us

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out ... best seats in the house. Right up close, next to the center aisle, next ... cheap and easy to order in bulk. I reckon there were a total of close to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  summer I'm in the IAP program Ohhhhh You plan to do misti after graduating ... . Cool Yeah not to be soap-boxy but   you are not alone in failing ... refusing to get up" "failing to attempt is the biggest failure of life

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... understanding. That click to go off in my head. Needless to say, it didn't. 8 ... floundered with the Expo marker in some desperate attempt to write something

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new adventures in far-flung cities. Most who are still around are the ones who ... sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  ’t be surprised to hear that he’s completed his PhD in molecular cancer ... research endeavors of my fellow undergrads. Today, little seems to have changed, as I am still (sort of, I’ll explain) in school at MIT, doing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014