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  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  : save people’s names with how you met them and how you relationally know them. Example: “Sherlock Holmes, John’s Roommate.” This will improve your ... every single day. Not to mention it’s a pretty good incentive to actually

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... topic was Dijkstra’s algorithm for finding shortest paths, my second topic ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  . That’s how fast it went. November. I looked up from my p-sets, exams and ... the end, the sky was falling in, and next would come Angel Gabriel’s ... hear Elie Wiesel’s Night is a ninth-grade reading piece, but I had no

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a ... feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... . However, I am now on the varsity fencing team, and that’s arguably cooler

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  forget things sometimes. The information is all in his pensieve(s), anyway ... TOO!!!!!"s and one very embarrassing (WHY DID I SAY THIS???) "OH MY GOD

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I’m in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I’d take a quick break to tell you a little…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I’ve been working on my grad school apps lately, when I’m not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college applications, including your…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  don't need to have every single component. Spice Blends, S oregano ... seasoning, S seasonings, S1: selected from a blend above bouillon, S2: chicken, vegetable, beef pastes, S3: tomato paste, curry paste, miso

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  . Seriously, when’s the last time you went to bed before 5 AM? But alas, your ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  equations. They don’t look familiar. You try to find your professor’s office ... that you can drop out now. But you know it’s not true. You can’t leave ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  throw things out the window because we think it’s funny, and we’re still ... and then put back together again”, it’s never about a school. it’s about ... find and so gratifying when it’s finally grasped that it makes you feel

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it ... special arts program for his junior year. It’s because writing is hard ... . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it’s

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  , since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... computer was my dad’s old Dell, which ran Windows XP. The system gets slower ... follows me everywhere. It’s pretty. It’s light. It might even be beautiful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  because that’s… that’s just kind of the feeling that goes along with this ... properly later, but here’s a roundabout way of getting there. Dear Seven-Year-Old Ana, Hello! It’s me~ Hm, actually, maybe I should introduce myself. Let’s

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  is my eighth Reg Day, although I only count seven of them. It’s also ... on out) that it’s going to be okay. Everyone likes to hear that. Some ... Student Luncheon happens every Reg Day. It’s organized by Laura Maxim of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  professor in the physics department lent to me. For privacy, let’s call him Professor Dumbledore, and let’s call the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to ... the name of the author. Let’s call him (again, for privacy) William

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she’s ... years thinking about THAT?!” (That’s fair.) But I’ve been amazed and surprised by the fractal nature of life -- there’s the world in all its

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  Tony Stark’s place as the new Iron (wo)Man.     Art from the Iron ... meetings after that first one. He had worked with Loren S. ‘17 in the past for last year’s bb8 droid video and the previous year’s drone video, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  hat. Others took turns playing Mozart’s Turkish March and the Mario ... . This is the spirit of preview weekend. It’s the spirit of MIT. But is it ... -frosh actually believe that it’s going to be as fun and happy as that weekend, but

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015