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• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... . things like the one class i took on a whim, but it completely changed how i understand the world, and now i'm doing a senior project in that field. or the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  plugged in a hand dynamometer (which basically measures the force of a ... disks is a two-man job Photo: Jessica Ong From Sydney's Entry: "Indian ... warnings from a local resident they might just end up in the hospital) In

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• 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 / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... pika.) In honor of this especially pika week, here is every pika food ... The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... a religious or faith community is tantamount, or you just want to make ... important than anything else, which won't help us in making a good match

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  enough to fit a bed. Living in a small half is a good lesson in keeping ... side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the most popular intersection in the dorm. If my door is closed my room is as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• 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