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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  possible, “It’s not you; it’s MIT.” In the meantime, I hope you take the ... . ‘14 MEng ‘16 Pi Day Eve by Ceri R. '16 to the 2019s in anticipation ... K. '14 MEng '16 Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) by Lydia

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  6.S096, Mobile Virtual Reality Development Challenge, another IAP ... that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The ... 's playsentations! 6.S08 Interconnected Embedded Systems There are times when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million ... sunrise. “It’s a winter fairytale,” I breathed into the frost, overwhelmed ...  Mandelbrot Set’s edges. Trees sprouted self similar branches. Even the artificial

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  , since these courses are all experimental). I took 7.S390, creating Digital ... more specific and less caps-locky, this was the course description: 7.S390 (Undergraduate) 7.S930 (Graduate) Special Subject in Biology

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  , and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... something that I could show them. Something that’s a perfect representation of ... four star buffet on a broke college student’s budget. You walk in to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  or something similar, it's 11:58 so you're stressing out trying ... yet to write down in your application. That's fine. Just be sure ... ;s submission deadline hasn't passed yet. If its been more than two

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  freshman seminar Professor, Dr. Ed Seldin, a big fan of late 1800’s machinery ... . You have to train yourself to see the layers – what’s holding up the face? And behind that – what’s in the walls? And beyond that who’s inside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes ... , preparing for Sunday’s competition. The pressure is on to get MIT’s car ready ... everything.” MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team was first established 26 years

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  research on my company’s background information. There are co-workers here ... ). Apparently this task was on our team’s to-do list for a while, but no one ever ... saving over each other’s work. What seemed like a really simple 1-to-2-hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  , and combining elements quickly. It’s really hard to tell someone you just met, “No, that’s probably not going to work.” It was really cool ... across the field. “What’s going on here, Kate?” they ask, and it’s clear

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  and on your own for a few weeks. It’s a good thing to know that you can ... little birdie! 2. Travel (Locally or not so locally) – In today’s world of ... year. It’s also a time to take a class to get ahead for the upcoming

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  look in the mirror and see a face that’s much darker than it usually is ... on gyroscopes, gas theory, and Gauss’s law. Gyroscopes make up one of ... Professor Walter Lewin’s 8.01 gyroscope lecture on OCW (ocw.mit.edu); thank

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  rights in many motion pictures and television programs, including the title(s ... , or portion(s) thereof, is taking place. We believe that the Internet ... Section 106 of the U.S. Copyright Act. Depending upon the type of service

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  MIT, and people’s only exposure to any sort of South American food is Taco Bell. It’s really, really weird. It used to be a little skeptical ... ’t be afraid – there are definitely options available. That’s not to say

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  at a local college) and received decent marks (5s for AP exams), MIT ... 5's on AP exams (and have passed all of your first semester classes ... and received 5's on both parts, you will instead reduce your needed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ways it’s even better than Drown." Yay. Then, much to my surprise, Junot ... big one... From The New York Times review "Junot Díaz’s Brief Wondrous ... the burdens of familial history. An extraordinarily vibrant book that’s

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  ? That’s the question. And that’s what my life is about now. Trying to ... ? Mike Posner’s story is just one story, and it’s definitely not a story that applies to my life (or to anyone else’s, really, since everyone’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  . It’s there, and I’m here. Be here. It also becomes abundantly clear ... that you can see the tops of the skyscrapers. ... It’s my senior spring, and I find myself walking around the Esplanade again. It’s been three

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... and attempting to solve humanity’s dental problems. The solution I ... that enters my mouth. It’s a “work hard play hard” mentality. I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  northern Wales, so that’s where I got shipped to this IAP!  What is Wales ... Wales’s geopolitics. Wales is one of the four countries that make up the ... compete internationally.  Stephen’s hot take was that if each country put

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023