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  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at ... ; For anyone that's used the elevators in Stata this is a common sight

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  where you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can ... : it has been truly painful. If you are among them, then all I can say ... you can be amazing wherever you go, if you choose to be. I'm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  comment and I'll let you know. DID YOU KNOW? The entry title comes from ... while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... ?" and the song goes on like this for like 23 minutes, because there was a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a ... only problems I can write without special characters). A1. Basketball

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  remember a time when I used to feel smart: The test is from the Fall 2004 ... Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog entry 2. Study for 10.213 test Monday 3. Study for a 10.302 test Tuesday 4

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  blocked from memory. Any sleep I lost was never found; TGIF took on a whole new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  , a D&D group in Next House, and I wrote about Singing for Service ... -ended final project where you can choose to focus on any computer graphics ... that could create a skeleton out of spheres (for the joints) and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... and sentimental. last week, i sent out a very small poll asking for ... . and a tweet (from a poet, chen chen, whom i love) that i personally

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a ... --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... ." I'm not sure if this is a result of simply M A T U R I N G or spending

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  curiosity we have as a species I hope that gets into the minds and hearts of ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a high-altitude NASA plane that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  should do the same for you. This process can sometimes seem inhumane, but I ... -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... conference, and very informative. I didn't know a lot about admissions before I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  inside for a special tour. I'll show you a couple highlights, as well as ... him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  that we'll receive a packet of information at check-in. Can I still get ... "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random ... a bed?" And Mike Borohovski answered, "It depends on where/with whom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ,000 (for a handwritten note from President Obama), $12,500... Then, suddenly ... remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices ... a $1 thrift shop copy of Isaac Azimov’s I, Robot has little value

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  , there's only so much you can gather from small black letters pasted ... pains and pleasures of MIT for yourself, and give me a chance to play host ... time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  a boarding Catholic high school—for my fiction humanities class. I ... fraternity was getting new members. I had ideas for a second novel, Nkem, and ... of dreadful. Doing them in the absence of that I-can-I-will-this-is-what-I-came-here-for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  different from living in a dorm. For one, you're in closer quarters, so you ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  who I just spent New Years with in Virginia, for example, was a ... 've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a ... questions... Pia writes, "Last summer I interned at a Neuroscience Lab. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005