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• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away ... a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  "]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided driving on the highway while I was in high school. Living in the Boston area ... we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher ... theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more ... due to that class in particular. Going into 18.100, I saw the material

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a ... life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You ... open yourself up, in essay after essay, decisions become really REALLY

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... field is just crazy. Look them up! I never had a true interest in biology ... greetings to people in my class in probably twenty-five languages. I think the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  . Completing all the sidequests means that you’ve 100%ed the game - in other ... campus one single time, I consistently have no idea what building I’m in. The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  -of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  of being in the intellectual and geographical center of where the newest advancements in science and technology are made.   Which ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside ... gibberish words in class Low prandtl laminar flow...wingardium leviosa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... , and so they founded Applicon in 1969. They admitted that they had a ... aided design products in first year, but only one succeeded. Traditional

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  the 100K back in February, when the team was mainly grad students with ... are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... started in 1989 as the MIT 10K Competition by Richard Durling

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  Are you interested in any of: making governments work better ... typically don't have to advertise our programs in science, engineering ... institutional brand and our role in the popular imaginary. But, as a graduate of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  after graduation)—and yes, I've witnessed these responses in the wild ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... in Brighton for $25 a person Scoring guest meal passes and eating

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... leaned in to see beyond the thick column ahead. The clock struck four

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... there who have built bottle rockets before or participated in a similar ... design”, the advice of someone who just happened to be hanging out in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of ... of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015