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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  segments can also be at the crossing of two edges. Otherwise, all non ... 18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" - Annie Dillard *** A 1 PM breakfast, one hour of productive work split across five ... way with my life, too. *** Sometimes I have visions of how I’ll spend my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... then had it disbanded because of problematic school administrators? Do

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  was a spark, an extra degree of freedom, a young, harmonious vitality ... brink of an epic hurricane, a Presidential election, and either the most ... . Toward the end of September I became noticeably stressed out. I stopped

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bringing my digicam to class for a “week” ft. 2.009 build challenge

  

  one actuated rotational degree of freedom. This was our Lightning Mc ... Hi blog, I am an avid user of what kids these days are calling a ... part of the appeal is the nostalgia— the photos look like the ones you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 11, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  it looked utterly barren. (Thanks, quarantine.) So I thought of ... calendar of note (aka, all of the things on my calendar): Science Bowl ... our regional happening in a couple of weeks, there’s a lot of work to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research ... -year undergraduate student at MIT, a math major and one of only five current MIT ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... or the whistling of the city. My destination, Brookline Arts Center ... was hours of pushing wet mud forward; scraping redness off the wheel

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me? of course, growing up, the answer was my family. i woke up one morning ... with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... decent chance of admission, from applying. This would also give confidence

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  enjoyed and gotten a lot out of."]CS degree here.[/annotation] Getting over ... 1 AM, but I've grown too fond of the title to change it :P) I didn ... favorite thing I’ve done at MIT. I got what I wanted to get out of it, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you can optimize walking significantly when armed with basic knowledge of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... students need to take 8 Humanities Classes total, of which, 2 have to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  of metal?” asked a volunteer after Copenhell. We’d been talking about ... voila! Four-day festival tix! A friend of mine volunteered as well. I sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022