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• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  everyone is on the precipice of something new, feeling around on a dark ... trauma and eviction, and my urop, and doing a urop i have pretty much no ... will be (i hope, haven't pulled it off yet 😬) a post about how i pulled

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Arthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, the Shaw Prize, the Einstein Medal, and is a ... that is as heavy as the Sun but as small as the Earth. A single such supernova can emit as much light as a whole galaxy. All in all, the two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  .02 is like being hit by a train that is much bigger and moving far faster ... much rest as possible. Is there any way you can take a break for the next ... down, it is never, ever little. I felt like I'd been run over by a truck

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy ... how effective this technique is, take a look at these before ... heavy use for a long time, and so is definitely on the much more worn side

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  recruitment: the Wyoming Coefficient, which is a measure of "how much people ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... Program, or SSP. SSP is a program for kids who love celestial mechanics and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is ... . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances ... allemande, a courante, a sarabande, a gavotte, and a gigue. (Gigue is now one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  This is PUF! I obtained a temporary cat this summer because Ilani A ... such as: 1.  screaming PUF is a loud cat. PUF is also an opinionated ... general I taught PUF a “sit” command, but PUF is smart enough to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  is a blast, but my favorite part of this program has been meeting the other Fulbrighters and learning about their projects. A pianist is going ... cochlear implants, a biochemist is doing research on multiple sclerosis, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  are weird because linear algebra is weird. Suppose you rotated a cube 45 ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... ) to get another direction. A sequence of rotations is then equivalent to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  , even if that “person” is a metaphor or completely made up. We’ll see ... ="768"] When did you get a sliver of the moon in your eyes/And how'd you ... . That material is workable, but you don’t know how just yet. 7. Those

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  for, and take care of, others' feelings. - Mostly Me This is a pretty ... for me and it is a safe space for expression for me. I always make sure ... bad in a majority of situations. Humanity in decision making is good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  my academics that much, so here's some brief insight on how things have ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... shred me into pieces. I am a fool who doesn't understand physics. It is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  how your UROP is going, seeing your a cappella group perform. I come ... second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a ... team is a force. We sleep outside offices and dorm rooms when people try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  questions regarding how a society is, fueled by familiar scientific practices ... institution of property is a human invention, as opposed to a description of how ... Economics is a weird kind of science. Like biologists or chemists

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  ) problem set. Behind them are three boxes of tea we just bought. For a few ... Hephaestus company. He is currently guarding a Rubik’s cube I bought over IAP ... ’ve been serving various purposes. The latest is a makeshift Towers of Hanoi

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  's language, that is to say, learn a little bit about the terms he uses quite ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]\pi/3[/latex] radians, how many is that? It's a third of a semicircle ... numbers make much more sense. Since tau is symbolized by a Greek “t”, we can ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... from drugs is worth the destruction of everything else, from a strictly ... chose the latter.” i think this is a possibility that we don’t explicitly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  playwright. Truth Values, written by Gioia De Cari in 2008, is a roman à clef ... girl's romp through MIT's male math maze," and as neither a girl nor a mathematician, I wasn't sure exactly how I would relate. I had seen the theater

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009