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  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... of things. I suppose the best part is that it's all making sense so far

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not ... all of the food through multiple shopping trips. We ended up with 3

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... 's admirable, in a way, to declare this the meaning of life. The world faces many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... circling that piece of chocolate? Very MIT cool and quirky. The 150 ... Janney, is just one of several whose work is profiled in the “artistic MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my ... with my hands. I knew MIT’s motto, and the sort of activity he meant, but

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  friend, and then a neighbor, and then another neighbor, and by the end of the semester, I had spent a lot of time and energy on making sure the ... the people around me are okay? The answer here, is, of course, yes. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes ... May 4. It was organized by the governing bodies of the fraternities ... Council, or Panhel.) All of the fraternities/sororities were divided into

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my ... woke up to the second blizzard of the year (which conveniently arrived

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... student has to take. The strongest examples of problem set classes are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  , passionate people. Go figure - I just described the vast majority of the ... competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest ... issue of class size versus # of applicants - but in the end you have to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  Growing up in the Midwest, my "beach" experiences consisted of the sands of Lake Michigan or small lakes in Wisconsin and Michigan. Living ... longer. Even better, many of them are accessible via the commuter rail

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so ... series. Next, keep your eyes peeled for profiles of the one and only Melis

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references ... 's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the ... back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is characteristic of less than 5% of the possible paths you could take. But during

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they ... awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of ... on and on about stories of the origin of many of the most famous hacks

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  , won tickets and took my camera along for the trip. On the night of Ring Delivery, we went to the Top of the Hub for some cookies and a good ... 'aime and Oceans 13 for $3 each. The films are shown in one of the large

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007