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  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... once. It started with an email to my academic advisor, then a phone call ... something I didn’t know before: having a bad start to a semester doesn’t mean

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  interesting to me as a (then) prospective History double major. I came in ... undergrads to judge. We met so many alumns. My interviewee was a total badass ... classes are 12 units; however, this class had a comparable amount of work to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to ... about it soon. 9.00 Intro to Psychology. I don't show up to a single lecture. I don't do a single reading. I go to recitation and look at optical

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... again. There has to be a middle ground, though. I'm still looking for it. ... I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... to join them even though it seemed like a pretty bad idea. but i don ... room all the time, so it's easy to get things done as soon as a class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and ... providing more than 1,500 3D printers and kits as part of a drive to ensure ... Chevron, which is announcing a $10 million commitment to the Fab Foundation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... Walsh--a nuclear expert who's traveled to both Iran and North Korea (fun

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor ... we struck the glass, it would ring with a frequency identical to that ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one ... our medical facility on campus.  Maybe you need a checkup, or to get a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its ... admitted to, MIT. I had briefly visited MIT during a previous trip to another ... very interesting jobs, I choose to take a job here in the MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  ; Just a GIR I put off til sophomore year because I wanted to take some ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way

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

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a ... : one, a professional grey to match my shirt, and the other a neon yellow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Students will use existing digital and traditional content to identify a scientific misconception, outline a lesson plan to address the misconception ... and how to shape our own projects. After a couple weeks of research, we

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

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide ... overnight but it’s a great and free way to start learning (Duolingo please ... experience points (XP) for each lesson, with ~10XP corresponding to a normal 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  ? (...) As it turns out, this was a surprisingly difficult question to answer ... ) up a general interface for dealing with sets: I chose to define a card ... specific variant. This way, I could easily check to see if 3 cards made a set

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... , as it can take a while to light up. Travel to the right down Mass Ave

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book ... derived with a diffusion equation which, according to Prof Mahajan, is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school, for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision ... team has worked incredibly hard this year to process a record number of ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011