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  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  a 'lay explanation', i.e. to describe it to us as you would to an ... I suspect I would have liked it. If you're potentially interested in ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  note: I found a fun little website I'd like to share with everyone. I ... *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... about her MIT experience. I don't remember exactly what was said, but I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  to MIT. I was just wondering, 1) how difficult is the application ... ) how difficult is it once you're there? any general advice would also be ... essays. Once you’re here, the work is hard. How hard is it? I don’t know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  decision was made that I would take the physics exam. The AP students spent ... exam that I vaguely understood- but I had no idea how I was supposed to ... that symbol before, and it scared me. I showed him how I solved the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.”  I wrote this line ... ; [excerpt from my notes app] phrases i’d never used until MIT: “I would go ... my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  course, if I were to become a professor (not going to happen), I would just ... hall. Do you see how terrible I look next to the radiant Dr. Tabacco? She ... some commenters, I will have some integration bee sample problems up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  yes, I would give this MATLAB thing another shot. After all, new ... dialog box with a not-so-friendly message. So that's how I met Jacob. I had ... You'd think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  , meaning I dropped that immediately because there was no way my grade would ... :05 PM. I was really nervous that I would really struggle in the class, but ... was really nervous for 8.021, but let me just tell you that I would take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  one person would allow the drawings to be consistent, but honestly, I ... this if I were to do it again. There’s many guidelines on how to animate, and I devoured many a video on “how to not make anime hair look like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  i’ve ever read. on some level i already knew what the post would contain before reading it - i knew it would discuss the jack’s depression ... they slip back into depression (that would be profoundly sad, given how

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  'all posted as to how I do this month about staying fed. Maybe I have too much ... , Maryland, down the road from Goddard Space Flight Center, where I'll be ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  challenges, and then they would predict how well they would succeed at officer ... could we know? And how would we measure it? Clearly Kahneman thinks that ... candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... dedicated their lives to the study. Actually, don’t do anything that would be ... became a lot easier when the phrase "I don't know what that is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready ... . So I figured everyone would just quickly scan through the e-mail and ... Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  Snively would call this the bloggers' freebie post. I would disagree ... . I wish the Biology department would promote these classes more and ... how to swim since I was 3. I was scheduled to take it my freshman year

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... university, and win at the ISEF international level. Notice how I had none of ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during ... , radios fell out of fashion. tetazoo I thought the ham population would be ... for marshmallows[/caption] artistic terrorization I forgot how exactly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  how so much of what i'm doing came from just watching others, but it is ... isn't putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  the room I was standing in, but I would argue this adds to the ambiance ... trip provided a lot of epiphanies I would be remorseful if I didn't share ... enlightening. Obviously I knew going into the experience that it would be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  performance within a group. Now I understand how professors feel. I couldn ... I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012