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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... again a zonotope; in this case, it’s a [annotation note="I learned that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I did exactly what I wanted all the time. ACDC blaring at four in the ... . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... break after handing in a copy of my master’s thesis. The first day I was ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... to bed until roughly 3, I set three alarms. In a random anomaly in the ... . Then I came back and hung out in the dorm and talked to Snively for a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  collected in a twenty-year odyssey around China, Europe, and the east coast of ... I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  at home ever since. I've been in my house for what I think is going on the fifth day (fifth? What day is it?? Is it really Thursday???) in a ... three years of this stuff, I should be entitled to a month or two of just

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... to see what changed for me and what didn't. Here are some things I did ... Natural History, checked out the reopened Toscanini's ice cream in Central

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... with my ~beautiful new bike~ in hand. reasons why i didn't want to get a ... a week for various things i was involved in, and a bike would've saved

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  SNOW!" Haha, I guess this is what happens when you come from a tropical country where it never snows. :) On a equally festive note, my dorm, i ... snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  , but in the end, I think it was a mistake.  I probably should’ve made ... … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while ... the bug in my 6.7930 (ML for Healthcare) PSET a bit faster. I wished I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  questions.  So here's a different sort of question: what should of ... , not only through what they literally write (i.e. "For fun I like to ... very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  'm reaching a little with that one. But you should still check out the entry ... would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60 ... yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ... helped me realize that Course 1 wasn't my destiny. SO WHAT IS THE BOXED I/A

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  latest electric glider (it was in my workshop in pieces a week before). I ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... wearing a very stylish laboratory onesie in the picture. I actually just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  painless in retrospect but I was a little stressed about it. On the ninth, I ... bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  exactly what I've wished for in a school. But there's one thing that ... you go to MIT? What's bad about MIT? I responded, after taking a moment ... : I'm sort of in the middle of a bunch of traveling, so my answer won

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct biological tests or throw a ball really fast. I just make decisions about stuff

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , she is spending a couple of weeks in Korea with family before heading ... Hostrop (Wellesley) ‘20 spent her summer in Beijing, China as a media ... ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... -Telmex. I will also be traveling to China later in the summer to teach high ... acceptees! YeSeul >> Last year, I founded a really cool organization

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008