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Blog / About Decisions
the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you
zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... whatever time i have left, because it can just take an arbitrary amount of ... the grind since my first year here, of course, and i've talked about -
Blog / Academics & Research
Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."
DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever wrote that was commissioned by a university. I feel that I've posted too -
Blog / Life after MIT
A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…
Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.
(except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be -
Blog / Academics & Research
You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers
I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different -
Blog / Academics & Research
The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!
leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... all the schools and majors and degrees if you are curious.) As you ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school -
Blog / About Decisions
Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.
- the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of -
Blog / Personal Travel
A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)
streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be -
Blog / Classes
fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters
bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got ... and nothing more or less. it is the epitome of what online university ... for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team -
Blog / Academics & Research
One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less ... ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... brainstorming, doing tons of market research, forming ideas and designing a plan -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them
write an algorithm finding the number of degrees of separation between ... particularly good job of finding that balance this semester. :D I took on a lot the second half of this year. I’m taking five classes; I’m doing -
Blog / Academics & Research
Why It Pays…
meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major might just be worth it -- in terms of job outlook and high starting pay, that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top -
Blog / Admissions
Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…
MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the -
Blog / Advice
SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter
known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here’s some of what I got up to! Name [latex]2^n[/latex] Women: Dorm -
Blog / Admissions
Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas
We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation -
Blog / Summer
my summer! a belated blog
This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a summer of growth. Internship Most of my summer was spent working as a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google
university to offer this topic (in case you were wondering). Anyways, I’ve got ... beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom. Clearly, I’m not a fan of trite platitudes. I got a collection of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.
perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... universities really be? This time, that extra perspective is not mine, but that of Qiaochu, a critically acclaimed math blogger (yes, blogs can be -
Blog / About Decisions
I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET
corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed