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  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  didn't blog last week. You can see some of our 8.02 nonsense here ... a lot of information at you in an hour and thirty minutes, I found ... !!!!!!!!!!!! I PASSED. I can sit in 8.02 without any qualms. 8.02 Woke up cozy and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  subject exceedingly well. In preparation for these supervisions, you are to ... work. You can choose how involved you want to be, and no one really minds ... understanding can sometimes be on rocky foundations. In mathematics, Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  tiles are there? We can count four different tiles in the tiling: Now, we ... ; though you can keep doing this until you’ve used up all your vectors. The ... have rotational symmetry. You can rotate them 180° about the central

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  do research at MIT (especially as a undergrad - you can work in Prof ... , essentially, that you could use in place of antiseptics/antibiotics to prevent ... -generational bloggerfest. If you come back to this post in a week, you'll get to learn why

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a ... . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13 ... Sabrina's work as an excellent example of what an MIT education can make you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  around a day. You can see the massive spikes at the EA and RA deadlines ... friends and family, or whatever else may be keeping you from engaging in the ... hope you will too. Your apps are in, we're doing the deciding; all you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  doesnt, rewrite it until it does (because if your friends can't see you in ... or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in ... way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  perfect in this case. After a few weeks you figure out how much food you'll need in the next week, what things you'll actually eat, what things you ... for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook ... presentations after they occur. But for tonight, though, you can watch the live ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  's practical isn't exactly, well, chic. Case in point: You may have seen this ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time ... , MIT gives you a sink-or-swim style remedial course on study skills. In

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  handing in the problem sets or did poorly on the midterm, then you can ... anything attention-demanding the next day and can can crash sometime early in ... stipulation. “You may turn in one problem set late without penalty.” For some

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  entries) mentioned which places in the world in their entries: As you can ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... story for you... by Chris M. '12 The Re-Froshening by Piper '13 Alum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... include:  my accent (“can you say no for me?”) my confusion at what a ... you live? What do you want to major in? Who do you want to be? There

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your ... some random strangers speaking in German on the train if you don’t know

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet ... /Cog) student, I can definitely say I don't feel lonely in either department ... career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... you know it used to be Metallurgy back in 1873? But even that wasn’t its ... you’re a prefrosh reading this and thinking of living in Maseeh, don

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  also helps if you can read quickly -- there's a lot of reading in college ... that are homozygous for a deletion in ced-9 are inviable. You suspect ... tether it there. You want to examine CED-4 localization in these ced-9 null

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... -elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  my literary career. Just in time to introduce you to Random Hall ... the room was absolutely hideous, as you can clearly tell from the ... Survivorman. Dinner segued into a socialization period in which YouTube videos

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... best to get you psyched about MIT. But anxiety runs high, as you've demonstrated in the comments. And we'll defer 5 out of 6 of you, and sadly, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004