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• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... growing as a person at mit: that problem you had no clue how to do suddenly is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... how much effort to put into understanding a subject also came up in 18 ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ourselves to see how many words we recognized in each one. Then she'd hand out ... on, and you can see how this might get annoying. But, the class was ... enough to get around Rome for 2 days this spring.... Anyway, like all good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  every kid around the world,”  said Binzel, according to an article in CBS ... in the late 1980s. Worked with Professor Jim Elliot and Ted Dunham to ... . Then worked to map out the dark and light areas of Pluto by measuring how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay ... one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Economics, and #9 in Political Science—these are numbers you can show off to ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other ... us to learn and get feedback from each other. Smaller departments

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is ... probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  the trip upstairs to the admissions officers. When we get them, the ... of hard work by the records office staff to get it that way. Admissions Officers get locked in a dungeon and cannot come out until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I ... the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How ... science department! We listened to presentations on "How to Invent Food on a Truck", "How to Build a Food Truck", "Food Truck Economics", "Social Media

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2 ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... - Get Set Go Self Defense Where the Hell is Matt? Pulp Fiction in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  sophomores do when we get stuck on chemistry pset problems, and help in the ... compound reactions or how to build rockets - and we want everyone else to be ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . Either way, there are inevitable going to be four sleeping people in the ... which books to use, but how to find other equally awesome books, journals ... , introductory paper to the major collosal paper due in December, just like four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag, and a willingness to sleep in things that are not beds. Not homework ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... I want to eat at that exact moment. And I love it. In preparation for ... Oats These seem to be getting really popular lately? I feel like you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will ... Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  ;)[/caption] We're still in Q-week, which means we're supposed to stay inside ... for up to one hour. It feels like being in limbo — everything should be ... window. The first time we dragged our suitcases to our room in Next, the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  , and even attempted to get in on magnificent Black Friday deals, but ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... , created in an attempt to win dinner with the renowned Professor Eric Lander

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... into wedges. There’s a body of mathematical work about how to fairly cut ... didn’t end up being that nerdy, and it was cut in nice, sensible, easy-to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010