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  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work ... production than Hollywood, for sure. A fortnight ago, the Frosh went to an MIT ... Frosh participated in a human-robot interaction study, where she was asked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book ... derived with a diffusion equation which, according to Prof Mahajan, is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I wanted to give a short update about 18.S190! Just this last week, lecture ... This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond ... about admissions and instead transform into a cozy place where we can ... one of the chosen 5? Does anyone know where I can get a used Viper

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  pictures of as many student groups as I could. Below, find a collage of 79 ... Friday was the annual Activities Midway, a hugely popular Orientation ... were on hand for the event. You can click here to view the entire list

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach. I first went with my friend Emily Y. '15 to a Worn Wear gear swap ... out of their own pocket. So, a shoutout to them, and all the wonderful

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  's where they get you. (Tricked me again, life!) According to my mom, you ... in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... , climbed up to the top floor (we figured out where the source was) and found ... freshmen entered the room to take a turn, so we left to give them space. Who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a ... stability this year and I hope to focus on that more. Maintain a 4.5/5.0 GPA ... year with a positive net worth of at least $1500. - I just need to save

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... . There's this cute little bench where I like to sit, or sometimes I just

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What schools can I cross-register with?

  If you find something that you're interested in studying that isn't available at MIT, you have the option to cross-register at Harvard, Wellesley College, and MassArt.
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  -ended final project where you can choose to focus on any computer graphics ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  the last pset got assigned, I legitimately could not start to answer a ... failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... mind just refused to work on a project if it knew it could finish it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  make a decision about where to apply to is KILLING me. Now it's 3 ... fraction of the cinnamon roll calories trekking to campus (it's about a ... ought to be. Maybe not such a bad strategy (it means I take what I'm most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Modern Healthcare Magazine.  During the 2008 he was a consultant to the ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and ... and you end up with a wonderful place to study economics as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5 ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012