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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... , or which order you chose to draw them in! So without even drawing the ... , which is where we get the name zonotope, with zona meaning belt in Latin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... catch up on sleep when you get home. Don't feel guilty for wanting to stay ... ... getting ready to help run the following French House events: Cards &

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... important. as in, researchers have been unable to consistently replicate ... undergoing sexual harassment resulted in less measured tendency to harass women

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  could be very dry (apologies to my colleagues in physics at MIT ... entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition ... mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  this club! Queer West started about 5 years ago in response to the ... , resources, queer groups at MIT, and more. This is an awesome to way to get ... place in my heart. Family Dinner Please join us to welcome pre-frosh into

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... took a big step back to 1923 (when Hubble discovered that there are in ... (ooooooooooh) HOW TO DO PARKOUR Music History Different dog breeds in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... are an opportunity to network, but also to engage with community — in ... country to set up in the ballroom and engage with readers and writers. Like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... , acting in plays and musicals for two years before I switched to the dark ... the world will still be convinced that I'm twelve. In addition to MTG

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  evaporate until you begin to see crater-like indentations in your rice about ... without sauce). It may help to place the carrots in boiling water for a ... the snow peas in too early as it only really takes ~1 minute to finish

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... in common? Well, first, they’re all what people traditionally take “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  . Welcome to REX. One of the first things you learn when you get to college ... Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  restaurant in Maine and decided to put their own B4 spin on it.   Burton ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the ... years—namely, windows that don't scream whenever it gets even the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... ’t appreciate how much effort we had been putting in until we didn’t have to ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  are in tough financial shape and make a good faith effort to inform us ... the word limit. You may choose to send in the essay at a length that ... changes in your coursework. You will also be able to provide information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  's something you've never tried before. It’s an amazing time to get a head start ... ending poverty, to having all of the candy that exists in the world and not ... results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated ... that they do in fact believe I ought to become a professional astronomer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... .2060 for answering a question in lecture. I've taped it to the inside of the ... -per-week labs in 6.2060"]Plenty to keep me occupied all semester :)[/annotation]

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011