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  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... experiencing life faster and faster. (This website has a great visualization of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  .009 course website:  "In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, students work in large teams of approximately 15 to 19 individuals to design ... status)  and many are finished and polished prototypes that, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  they felt about a school on its admissions website (which, incidentally ... Schrödinger's cat, or a box of chocolate Schrödinger's cats, in you never know ... transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  . For many students, it doesn't really set in that they're an MIT student ... username that you won't be embarrassed sharing with your professors.In some ... "locker") and a website at http://www.mit.edu/~yourusername.And, of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... changed about MIT in the past four years - but many things haven't, and I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  will camp out in the parks, have informal lectures with the Earth Science ... "Soccer Bots," culminating in an ultimate Soccer Bot battle/tournament at ... in the program and 12 upperclassman mentors explore one of six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality, sleeplessness, and profound superiority over Harvard in every regard*. Other

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in ... Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  called the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). In high school, I was involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  for many dorms was just put in last summer. There is a website with ... Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery, but some slarifications is needed. What is it in feet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  the UROP website. 4. "I'm not sure what I want to major in.  Is that ... Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel like writing prose right now Sitting in a Chair (A poem about sitting in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  personalities. This is in part why one of my favorite websites this year has been ... They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or ... true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  (a popular website for sharing fiber arts patterns and creations). in ... pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... in the recipient, cut the donor until all that's left is a square piece

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  legal. The very first state-sanctioned same-sex marriage in the USA ... @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the ... romanticizing the classes and picturing myself seated in the classroom learning ... the semester at around 5 or 6 and in those next two weeks or so I drop

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  spotify ever since freshman year. shuli and ankita have also done posts in ... 've just been too down in the dumps because of the quarantine to actually ... what i study to nowadays. RIP having good taste in music. my one attempt

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020