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• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  . I know that is a lie from Lord Voldemort. The main comparison that I ... been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... lessons from you, I have cried for you. I had a really horrible physics

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... way that I solve problems like that is by breaking it down into a series ... 's a protocol with 2 wires, and the signal is either a 1 or a 0 based on

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  ://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is ... e-mail. The service MIT uses, Webmail, is a fairly standard service ... interface is a little confusing, ugly, and bare-bones. The two main

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  ? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How ... From the comments on my last entry, the mean is 3.21748954013248 and the standard deviation is 1.07001670365812. These two classes are

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of ... implications: How does global warming increase the intensity of hurricanes? Can
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or ... I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... planning aspects concerning developing countries. That is also a big part of ... thing about DUSP is the ability to pursue a joint program of the MCP and a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  Gallery in the Student Center is a gallery that holds either student curated ... health and wellness. So we have a really good sense of what her art is and ... friends in random places is always a happy time. 5. As we came back to our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  Christians and high GDPs. The fact that I didn't get a present this year is ... “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” is much more metrically flexible than ... : A lithospheric formation of charred crust, high density, and too much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no ... Interphase? According to the OME's Website "Interphase is a rigorous seven ... , writing and discussion." but I find this definition is lacking in a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be quite the opposite (except still a whole lot of fun). I've got at least ... 's have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  wants to help others, and what i really want is a way of satisfying both ... over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... . There is such a thing as a bad essay. In my case, my bad essays came from ... the drawing board. Even if a story or experience is compelling on its

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... booths and acclimatize myself to the craziness. Career fair is always an interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  , let alone a blog post. But one of them is best summed up by this SMBC ... culture-jamming “Design Noir” philosophy. The first is a pair of glasses that darken whenever a television is in view. The second is low- power RF

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  class (which is a requirement for biology majors and pre-meds.) The class ... papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  not how cat feet work That's better. I'm in a cooking group on my ... pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full, lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

   MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose ... app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  Kesem is a free week-long summer camp for kids of cancer patients; more ... be teens! This is the first time that CK-MIT has a teen program - it ... is Stuff My Cups, which may be more effectively described with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010