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  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a ... a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in the groove of working through a task now that I’m in the second week of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... during finals and is finally getting better), four finals in three days

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... destroyed. This is not particularly surprising, since he was a Battlecode ... IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won ... -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind ... Ahh!!! This blog is finally happening! I think my bio page gives a ... as a harmless sounding “Exam 1”. I also don’t like how I borderline

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... , a value is contentless. No, the value of a value lies in its trade-offs. The value of a value lies in how it guides decision-making. Valuing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  what symptoms. This is a story about how I survived Family Weekend ... sure everything is in order. Our frat was holding a small barbecue for ... served in a tiny carton for lunch. Eating at Maseeh was like eating at a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I ... The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... -dimensional world results in a two-dimensional image of what can be seen from where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  editorials. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as ... 't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think ... , scrutinizing them with a skeptical eye and asking “How do we really know it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be ... kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up ... window is looking at hydrogen regions in the galaxy (actually, he just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll ... Puru was and were expecting a "Peru" themed party. Lul. ~ Orion is a ... in and be in there for like fifteen minutes when all of a sudden I see

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to-take-a ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the ... ground.[/annotation] Look how strong that snow is (see first image

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... who is now on sabbatical. A different professor approved the UROP in the ... for a minor in this one, which is a new development, with five

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  performing in Attleboro, Spring 2011 Techiya is also a very social group ... class and being in three music groups is not a good idea. It can be very ... , my favorite group is Techiya. As an a capella group, Techiya does not

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... concepts, including a "faster" moving sidewalk (no joke...): This thing is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  for love of learning is a great reason to do so. In our admissions ... yourself in a way that is reasonable for you, while making sure that your ... into their imagination enough," Jones says. Her remedy: "Let's free up a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  rate that is much, much higher than many select private schools, and even ... (and a great LGBT community, I might add). While MIT is disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  is “a pioneer in cancer research most widely known for his discoveries ... choose to participate in a variety of musical clubs, French or German plays ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017