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  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  in the 8.012 section had an exam. Proctor (smiling): "8.012? Are you ... instructor for 8.033 - General Relativity - who had their exam in the same hall ... houses occupied by teachers…and that’s it. It looks like this in every

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  foreigner looking for an authentic Korean experience. We laid inside the ... once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... workaholics - we get 10 vacation days with an additional 10-15 days for full

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  . Today, [annotation note="If you were on campus for an information session ... MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by ... coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Indian Trail, North Carolina, the qualifier for the US Championships in ... (we're given 5 for the term), and finished and turned the pset in 1

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’s definitely good for beginners! I’m just gonna do everything in Blender’s grease ... probably kept crashing for Isbla because she did all the rendering in it; I ... stunningly bad documentation, but I think for personal animation projects in

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

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  suspicious. The email was an invitation to the White House for celebrating the ... mini-van, slightly delirious from being in one space for such a long time ... , which meant being in a sketchy neighborhood. Visited Stonewall Inn for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look ... buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen ... you meet. If you see somebody who looks like an undergrad, stop him or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Multivariable final this morning; let us waddle in the Aftermath for a little bit ... , looking for answers – why you were rejected, deferred, or accepted, how you ... drilled in working hard for “the one you want”. So whether you didn’t expect

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  admission department to reach out to kids in areas where an in ... an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  for an audience). Soak up the town and culture you live in, because ... vomited all over them. We have an article in our newspaper, The Tech, that talks about fashion guidelines for people interested in that stuff, but I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... take pictures." Not quite the resume I was looking for. I message my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  provide any and all grades available for classes you’ve taken in your ... looking for current-year courses and grades. And we're only looking for ... for any new updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... free-food isn't the only way in which MIT supports our stomachs. For ... it all in one sitting, while documenting it with pictures / videos and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in ... think about how we measure "volume" in those spaces. For example, 1D ... . In any case: Matt Parker. In Parker's comedy special, he spends like an

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... solely residential area: an older Japanese woman pushing her mother-in-law in a wheelchair, having a conversation with an older man down the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P ... bridges. In this class, we look at structures in equilibrium and learn how ... Unfortunately, having my "hell weeks" for the last two weeks has

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  opportunities they had in neuroscience and computer science. I also looked at each ... two areas, for which getting the traditional education in two separate ... approved in time for me to declare Course 6-9. So, in the spring of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  will look for extrasolar planets (transiting planets- that cross in front ... to my homegirl Jessica. She was my prefrosh hostee for an overnight ... in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  exactly did all that time go? That's an answer too long and boring for this ... double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  , tips for finding an internship.  Some are less serious: truffle making ... you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the ... to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013