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• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... picks are offered admission. I beg, I plead, I make ridiculous promises ... of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  that the universe expanded exponentially from a point, a singular space ... mind, in our mind, is that the universe didn't burst out into pre ... two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  years earlier, we drove 7 hours to the Florida state capitol the day after ... cold marble floor of the state capitol, surrounded by federal agents and ... . And with detailed polling data, state legislatures have disenfranchised

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... general idea of religion which was that of a universe ordered by a supreme ... to Physics. She also had to state that her book had been reviewed by a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  energy, excited state, which is great to be in, but eventually, it will wear out and you would go back to the ground state.  and so, it doesn ... models that estimate the universe incredibly well. it is also beautiful, to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  state   vi. one concept that’s become popular among my friends ... is rarely universally applicable though - usually, when people say it ... external world, so that they can better manage their own emotional state

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... is defined as entropy  log(# states), a sort of quantifier of ... the 2600-Year History of the University, Online Learning Resources from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  -- do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the United States, but ... else. If you attend school outside the United States, and have teachers ... for MIT Admissions. While much of this advice is universal, YMMV1 with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn ... Matt Damon). For instance, I enjoyed Introduction to Solid State ... about my life's goal of designing solid-state polymer batteries. I emailed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... -degree increments. To describe an object’s orientation, you needed just two ... fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  physics-philosophy degree. Allow me to demonstrate with this participatory ... corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  .   Faced with all these questions (amplified to the nth degree by 2020) I did ... , Pennsylvania, a few minutes from the Carnegie Mellon University campus, which I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... they universities, companies, nonprofits, startups, are doing these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  universally intimidating questions that you don't really need to know the ... degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... students who had aspired to study at the best universities since before they

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... him as a professor at Princeton University overflowing with awards and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  Embry-Riddle and Gonzaga and Tulane and [YourState] University and ... “principle of continuity,” which states that an accountant should assume that ... universe has built up to critical mass I cry and scream into my pillow and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  to global justice? -- What is the state’s responsibility to provide ... the Harvard Kennedy School) -- Myisha Cherry, Harvard University Dept of ... reviewer and has appeared on BET). -- Juergen Scheffran, Hamburg University

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017