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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  how this might happen for a moment, and then look at the diagram below ... for the 9 subsequent managers, and so on, until we get to level K for ... number between 1 and K+1. There will be 3J people at this level, some of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  for them and the less snow, the more they can deny winter exists. For me ... probably my favorite season. I'm just not built for the beaches and heat. Sunburns suck, sand doesn't do it for me, and the heat is just tougher for me

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  floor that blurs the boundaries between painting, sculpture and ... in the interstice between art, architecture, and design, between the ... campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  this list, as an 8.02 exam, psets for 5.12 and 18.03, and being CPW rush ... 'll give me something to listen to while studying for tomorrow's 5.12 exam! ... the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and ... , then decide if you can or can't come. Lots of stuff between then and now. :) ... , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  and good. 12 am I am again eighteen, lying awake in a hostel bed while ... work I get on the phone, bounce between different agents and long holds ... be here. I’m grateful for my RA and the folks in the airline who did

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  Montreal, we got through cutsoms and had to wait for maybe four hours at the airport before our next flight. Joe and I stepped outside for a bit, just to ... through MITES.  I had just finished teaching for STEM, and had a week before

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  harder for you to relax, and you will come across as uncomfortable. Anyone ... , and your mileage may vary) and by the location for the interview. I ... for a difficult interview. That applies for both men and women. It just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  , after which I have to run to Target and go shopping for pants and for toy design stuff. Then I run back to the dorm, finish my psets and study for my ... I meet my prefrosh Chris '12 for CPW! In theory, by this point in time

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high ... chemistry in high school.~ I was young and naive and blissfully ignorant of 5.12 ... because I have looked 14 for the past 7 years"]21[/annotation] now, and this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  accepting and friendly place for gay and lesbian students (this is my outsider ... wrote, "Matt, on the application it asked for my "AMC 12" scores. I wasn't sure exactly what the test was, and mistook it for a different math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  exist for a functioning and progressing society. However, his explanation ... for a salad dressing, losing my mind over the set of a panna cotta, and ... and especially for others. Participating in someone else’s ritual and on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this ... pretty!" and then ask for an extra cookie. My wife told Miss April of this ... . Seeing this, I decided to scrap my entire house and start over. 1/2 hour

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  ). Even so, the last month had me mentally flipping between Brain and ... relationship between neuroscience and human interactions with both the environment and each other (he calls it "social neuroscience," mostly for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  problem, the average score was 1.35, and the median was 0). The top 1/12 of students each year are given a Gold Medal; the next 2/12, a Silver Medal; and ... international olympiads, and not just for the US but also international students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  between March 9, 2020 and March 15, 2020: Monday, March 9 Just Another Day ... between finding out about Princeton's plan and feeling the crushing reality ... "adult" and also someone who worked for MIT – but it was clear that none of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those ... video). Interviews with Liz '12 and Andy '12 On the third day of CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  This past weekend I was somewhere between flying and drowning. Finals ... pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and ... observed mass and charge because (wait for the punchline) they were all the ... characterized by only mass, charge, and angular momentum. At MIT, the no-time-for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  this expectation but there’s a distinct line between expectation and ... on how amazing Stephen King was, and only paused when I had to pay for ... . And that was fine for now. For now, I still had his books and could

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013