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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E ... (E.Jones) instead of E.Jones2, but the truth is, our power really is

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... ="attachment_100162" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Projections of the point (x

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  Did you know? Of all 7,238 MIT Admissions blog posts before this one ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when two things are different, but they’re actually the same.” So instead of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... house where cats will come out of room C only if either room A or room B

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a ... of my favorite lecturers in MechE, but on that day, I could barely stay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  's been around since 2002, so it might be older than some of you reading ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data between, and it's still an awesome website. Here's one of my snowflakes from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

    you have a lot of drive and commitment—remind me how many ... adversity, and have a bunch of cool interests. you're social, but mostly like working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine ... ’s Valentine’s Day, and that restaurant has three dollar signs,” one of them said ... plausible deniability of “I thought this was just a friend hangout!” But that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community ... preparation based solely on the absence of SAT/ACT scores, but will instead make

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  remind us of how quickly everything changed. the craziest, most tumultuous days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... think about how that intrinsic aspect of my college experience won't be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible, expanding the range of talent categories to include unconventional ones to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the ... classes on zoom, returning to high-pressure academia after a year of self

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away ... a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But ... are not particularly aesthetic or instagramable, since we've been out of ... way (we are probably a minority of people who most of the time don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  when I finished people applauded.     Of all the things I ... Sabrina's work as an excellent example of what an MIT education can make you capable of making.       May 15-19: ISEF @ LA   This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  theme parks host a variety of runs throughout the year.  Many are themed ... Disney World and Disney Land do an unthemed series of runs.  Disneyland ... Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... , Thirteen Ways of Looking. Another best-selling author, Claire Messud, came to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016