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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and ... in a given project. There’s the project funder, which is the provider ... contractor and project funder enter a contractual agreement for how the work is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... . He mentioned how if your right hand is out after a punch, you make a ... pretty informally, the last time I did a sport formally was in 8th grade

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year and a half. At MIT the equivalent course is 18.01. It takes 3 months. If ... drinking out of a fire hose. That's because MIT shoves as much knowledge down

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  9 8 2 1 4 5 3 6 4 7 5 Discussion: This is just a map, can't do too much with it unless you know how to traverse it. CLUES: A few of these ... after you solve the puzzle. Flavor Text: Lost in the jungle, Joe is

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... a class that is diverse in their interests and backgrounds. Yes, there ... school, broke up after a few months, realized how much they hated the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line ... --seldom is a space used for only one.   Barker Library In my experience

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  is technically a quantum process. But those don’t count! What I really want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... mechanics is just a very elaborate inside joke that physicists made up a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative that has many twists and turns, including how she went from being "a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  , struck by a board with a nail in it as a child, got frostbite, and is ... 's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  much of the lab as I can in one sitting. Since I haven't been in a coding ... carving, which we did in lab 2. This is a method where you remove pixels ... and to think about these ideas in a comparative way is super interesting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... dorms on campus. If someone likes a different dorm from the one they're in ... captains of our own destinies, but transitioning into college is a test you

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  minor in college and this is my chance to explore music in a tangible ... , yeah, i had a background. this first pset is 5 problems long. seems ... glance. oh, how i was so wrong. i worked with my friend aiden who is also

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... hour and a half. We walked in opposite directions, happy that we met each

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  just say that succeeding in your senior year is doable. But it's a ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  four hours in the 6.002 laboratory trying to figure out how to use a ... around? Is MIT really like this caricature? Well... yeah, sort of. It's a ... still have no idea how integrating factors work!" or "I better get a good

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually. Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is ... credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  how much you are doing. there is usually a lot to do but there are ways ... that CJ and other bloggers have blogged about in the past. It is a ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Course 21W: Writing and Humanistic Studies.* *What in the world is a writing UROP, Jess? “What in the world is a writing UROP?” you ask.* *Way ... unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an ... affirmative decision tomorrow. Please fight those thoughts. A decision is not a ... or experiences. A decision is not a culminating experience or the end

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018