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• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... sets are there? (1080) What is the average number of sets in a 12-card ... symbols There is exactly one set in that board of 20 cards. Find it before

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... four colors of paint in my hair. Anyway, it wasn't a problem because my grad student Andy is in Switzerland and I'm basically doing all his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my ... even before getting here that emphasize how well-known it is. There are ... how sometimes people don’t have any clue about where MIT is. My simple

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  experiences in India were and just how much I grew and developed as a person. I ... Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek ... country a little more, in a similar way to how I am accustomed to the bias

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was ... Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  equilibrium, there is a limit to how much I can handle and still be happy ... five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  ... start thinking about an email address soon (look for more in a future ... get attached. This college process, is, of course, a two-way street. You ... statistic. But zooming in, there are 500 individuals who find a better match

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  feel only tired, and comfortably numb. And there is so much good in this ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... where I’ll live a year from now, but wherever it is, I’ll look for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... advice. Case in point--there was a parent of a fourth grader (that's right, elementary school) whose child has known for a couple of years that MIT is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  recitations (or tutorials, in a class that has them). Pretty much any department ... , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... Reading the Essay (Spring '04, Manning) - A rarity in that it's both HASS

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which shows just how quickly MIT is zipping on by.   During last year's Career Fair, I ... It's been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room ... . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and ... specific characteristics. High school quizbowl in Canada is focused on our

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  's the way life is. The real world is so much bigger than what you know now ... : being in college will be a wonderful experience, no matter what university ... discover a whole new territory. Make your mark in whatever way you can - on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany ... that I'm a senior and I can take pretty much whatever I want. The first ... by companies. On Friday, we figured out how to design a showerhead

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  the Hofbräuhaus, which is probably a little like Durgin Park in Boston ... . In München, the standard size for any beverage is 1 liter, pretty much ... Munich that afternoon, but there were a lot of people walking around in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  a financial hardship, we’ll waive it. There is no benefit or ... you how much we want you to take care of you, and you loved ones, before ... Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  of the comma. Ontography is an aesthetic set theory, in which a ... exercise is a core component of how I maintain and improve my physical ... much of what I learn in training is applicable to real life. The only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... how seamlessly I incorporate these links? I am a blogging genius. Anyway ... --spaghetti against a wall. The whole thing was just fantastic--the best part is when

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005