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  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... been several things holding me back from that. The stacks and stacks ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My ... current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and ... hope to implement a simple portlet that will briefly explain OCW and then

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration ... and passion for the climb. At the same time, we want each to add

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... , puzzles, and board games, and even later i would discover that a couple other things that cj liked, like squares and writing, were also things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... computers, better ways to power those computers, and even new ways to save lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  and (2) an analysis showing how MIT students felt about Washlava based ... to the laundry room and then there were no machines available, or I had forgotten something (tide pods, dryer sheets, quarters) and had to go back to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  , helpful, and hosing. This semester, 8.07 (Electricity and Magnetism II ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  architecture, elaborate artistic displays and blissfully warm beaches. The second ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a ... ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the stairs and a flurry of multilingual exclamations: pon tu pie aquí ... up through the shower window and came to the rescue. Freedom at last ... , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff I guess

  

  My friend Miguel T. '25 and I were texting about random stuff this morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you ... global experience/travel abroad program']MISTI[/annotation]essays and stuff

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  WordPress"]only four[/annotation] contain equations typeset in [latex]\LaTeX[/latex]. And ... beautiful mathematical concepts, so Paige and Fatima have challenged us ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  group of people—especially people I don't know. And if, on top of that, I ... saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... guard again"]come up with two truths and a lie,[/annotation] I'm gonna be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a ... instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note ... expressions and all things computational – I heard they could list the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  home for weeks before and never felt homesick. looking back, that was ... had been feeling homesick and realizing what it was and that we had been going through similar things made it easier to talk about it and easier to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for ... inspiration. These days I am pretty [annotation note="my friends and family say ... kitchen stuff. Some of them have been gifted to me, others I purchased, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  article, "never in Boston’s long and storied weather history (since 1872 ... forecast the night before, and, when the call or text finally comes, the relief and joy in knowing that the day ahead of you has suddenly cleared

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  okay. i'm super behind on this and that's my bad. but... when you ... ="aligncenter" width="585"] the long and arduous journey from burton conner to building ... 've left around 10 and gotten to class in time!! what about the infamous 15

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you'll find a gorgeous trail coiling through crests of evergreen trees and ... . [caption id="attachment_38589" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Me and my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  MITAdmissions.org. We still are, and it's going well. I think we're ... head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more clearly envision their potential experience at and after MIT   As I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018