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• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  dropped it), but the best part is that there's a roughly 1.2:1 ratio of ... and Thurs serve lunch. Which is a great bonus.   6 ... probability. Probability is really the foundation of a lot of analysis in EECS

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  different places and experimenting with how much I opened up before I found a ... their peers, which to me is indicative of a community I have never been a ... it." At times like these, it is really helpful to have a place to go

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is ... understand that it was wholly unintentional. Some have remarked that it is a ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I

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

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  classes and your tests and your p-sets, how much time everything is going to ... organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... in the fall. My point is, your first semester is pretty much the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... chemical engineer would do?" I've always been meaning to do the "how does a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  summarize; Red Team made a product called Vortex, which is an alternative to ... wandering around with box mics. only valid form of q&a already Good job ... because i want to speak with the magic box but my head is literally empty rn

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  over. The guest bedroom has a huge pile of cardboard boxes, and Raphael ... box out of the way, Raphael stuck his hand out and made a noise ... . The company is one of the big plusses of a summer research program. On

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  have designated MIT at a score recipient, you are all set; there is no ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will ... application is not yet complete. Over the past month, we have received more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  ... how difficult is it to pick stuff up? As far as picking up programming ... staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  is who we are. Without people, MIT isn’t much more than a random pile ... things? With that, I took a step back and stopped focusing so much on what ... started paying a lot more attention to how they were using different

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... ) There is a Maker Portfolio option? Really? A1) YES! Check out the ... knitted fractal, or a computer program/app.   Q3) How do I submit my

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  committee decisions on demand. But often there is not a specific reason that ... life very much. MIT is an amazing place, but it won't determine your ... I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  freshman-- How are you doing in your intro classes? How much sleep are you ... motions, because as they say, "to whom much is given, much is expected ... things with which you're involved. He said it best with, “Life is a game

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  . This is what he played. "Now you can never forget what a descending 5ths ... up at 4 AM after I-forget-how-many hours' sleep and start on a thermo ... shift tonight and noticed that there is a large, person-sized indentation

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  presentation for 16.810, we made a short video. Here it is for you to enjoy ... . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  went before I gapped, except that then I did not realize how much I would ... , everyone’s focus is shifting. EC is here and I’m living in it, but it’s a little more normal. REX as a wide-eyed newbie was good and now is gone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that ... doing much of anything isn't nearly as bothering to me as it is to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to ... decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all ... accelerator? Build a particle accelerator! (Don’t know how to build a particle

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... heat dissipation. The math is the same–but I’m sure you know how much ... ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015