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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to ... to each other. Remember how each rock has a force that points in one ... usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  At MIT, we hope to get to know you better through the application process and want you to be able to express yourself authentically. We understand that some information you may choose to share with us is information
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  engaging in a behavior to get an external reward or to avoid punishment, and ... your goals. Goal Planning — consider how to intervene in the automatic ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... colleges are in many different locations, you may not get to all of them ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  . I've got the opportunity to get an MIT grad degree in a really mind ... right time. Like Yogi Berra said: when you get to a fork in the road ... brilliant professor and forced to think in new, uncomfortable ways. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  factor in play, but this article opened my eyes to how impactful it was to ... embarking in search of The Great Pumpkin, to discovering  [annotation note ... grow, from their infancy in the 50s to their slightly older childhood in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA ... 'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch the final ... 'll drive down to South Bay and conduct reconnaissance work out at Stanford; I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  .']concentrate[/annotation] in linguistics, I thought it'd be suitable to talk about some things I've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  you must get in touch with your alumni interviewer by October 20th to ... in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  big thought, so get comfortable. The last science fair I went to was in ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... Waterpark. This means I get paid a very small hourly wage to stand outside all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... scratched” [1]. In simpler terms, harder materials are more difficult to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... , and staff alike have been uploading their photos to the website, which ... also how they choose to frame that. The project made me notice the things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... typical ABC. For one thing, I have never gone to school in the US, even

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  "]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me ... protein bar for breakfast, getting to the testing room super early, and ... some drafts I made while trying to piece together the diagram in the post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you ... difficult to get into the program, because it seems like every other person I talked to at CPW was interested in this field. I just want to be sure that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  pants, closed shoes, and no hanging jewelry) to get in the door. However ... they'll get to the Geo report in the near future. Helen wrote, "First, I ... : once in the late '80's and early '90's, and returned to doing it just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  shorter walk, but the santouka in harvard is easier to get to through the ... 're sad and need to get inspired in your life. the ramen is not the point of ... curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019