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  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  will gather around, like new movements, new styles, or new ways of seeing ... precisely this individual that is able to uncover the new rules of the game ... of what exists. The genius rejects those constraints to stare deeply at

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the ... of them attend universities within a 200-mile radius.) Good morning, I ... importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  worried." "The New York Times is like the Yankees.  Lots of people hate ... consulting job to go analyze baseball? A: "Well, most of my income at the time ... a lot of hooky during your day job and win money at online poker

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main culprit was briefly considered (a 5'8", 115-lb. freshman from New York -- it ... handful of indy hackers made their run at the Straw Poll, the ballot box was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  , and he studied computer science and mathematics at MIT too. Of course ... Ellison received multiple New York Magazine articles detailing their ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  apply for a master's at a university near Paris, but I needed a letter of ... ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... 's are only 1-2 years and happen at a much less formative period of life

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  spoke with an icy frustration. My parents were not new to this process. At ... siblings and I looked at him. I was the biggest of us at only 5’4” 110lbs ... Americans at the competition of almost 300 students, both stood at the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... before and had no idea what was going during either of them. One by one ... if anyone was still awake. I replied "Yea! There's tons of us down here

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands ... somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  practically done everything my school has to offer and am also the president of ... address an email to Stu Schmill, Director of the Educational Council, at ... of the devil, so I don't want to unless it's necessary. At any rate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began ... quit. Valuing becoming better means saying yes to projects at the edge of ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  standing culture that our ancestors may have had at any point of time. We ... I entered my research lab at Emory University I was very quickly ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  England) and went somewhere new, I was reminded of why I love traveling so ... of traveling is making new friends! In this trip, I met a wonderful and ... the aneuploid cells, we can find new treatments of tumor!  How cool is

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process ... experiences at pretty much any university. The funny thing is, individually

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  across New England and upstate New York throw paper airplanes for three ... Astronautics. Andy finished near the top of all three categories at the Boston ... of them. Course 16 is like a big family of excited kids gazing at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake ... the incoming Class of 2013, I offer an introductory documentation of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  is great! If a course isn't offered at your school, MIT will not ... chemical engineering at MIT and have no intention of choosing any other ... admissions office looks at your 'list' of achievements and capabilities and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  prospect of meeting all the desi people we will at this conference.    ... bags with some of their masalas and custard!  At the same time, after ... queens (gender neutral)) and found a lot of conversations, at the very

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  barrel of 10+ new, totally unsolved puzzles. At that point, we realized ... offered me help and support at every turn. When we undergrads were being ... began. Our hunt was set in ⊥IW, the perpendicular universe version of MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021