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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  [annotation note="Being at the eastern edge of the timezone really sucks. Today, the ... us toasty. And at the appointed time of 5.26 pm, aka we planned to eat ... Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at ... of your speed at any given time during the run. If you plotted every ... check the date written at the top of the page and thought it was due the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied ... -intensive” class), and at least two additional math classes of your choosing. Here ... displacement of a cantilever beam at rest with only the force of gravity acting

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  the undergraduate perspective at Next. Four days later, when all of the ... , essentially, first-year students at Next go through a process of exploring the ... form of swing dancing! I hate dancing and am generally bad at it, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... . Maybe I wanted to assert my burgeoning sense of adulthood at a time when ... I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  lifetime of 19 years. In honor of the passing of 1000 days, I looked at the ... playlist of all of them is here, for you to shuffle at your own risk: https ... also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and ... to an MIT Quizbowl team practice at CPW and had a ton of fun, so I was ... . Here's a bunch of pics I took at 8 am: [carousel image1="39703" image2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big ... at the great dome. This is the part of the tour when the tour guide ... to go start calling you guys at the telethon. 5 hours of phone calls

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  ideas based on study of the past), 疑心暗鬼 gishinanki ('jumping at shadows ... [annotation note="i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a ... math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  email a scanned PDF of the missing document to admissions [at] mit [dot ... Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the iHouse International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend ... from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me most about MIT were MIT Finals. I've already been through one round of ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  Most of my weeks at MIT have been crazy and cool and full of interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... second floor, near the M-Z section of "Current Periodicals" so I can treat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... everything else guys. I wondered why everyone was so proud of their study

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... ), CSC (Chinese Students Club), and ATS (Association of Taiwanese Students). There were tons of activities at this event, and unfortunately I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  . The midterms happen at the end of a month. The final is only called a final because it's at the end of the semester, it's not "cumulative" in ... . Exams thus happen at around the end of every "month". These tend to line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  't worry about it. Shaye: Really? Wouldn't Bryan be mad at us? Yuan: Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  5.12 Organic Chemistry I (one of the best classes I have taken at MIT ... , Tom Stoppard and his contemporaries. One of my favorite classes at MIT ... In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013