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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... follow to get something working. 8.022: Physics II: Electricity and ... Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek ... ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex]\tau[/latex] (the Greek letter tau, usually pronounced to rhyme with how but some

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  [/caption] But how did this shark plush get so popular? Blahaj’s rise to ... result, more trans people get Blahajs to feel that connection with their ... , and economic forces that enabled these influencers’ rise to prominence

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  things like “Best Wrong Answer” — I found myself choking up. Getting to be ... Conditions: Play with this for a bit, until you get the idea. Then try to win ... interviewer) in action to get the most out of this one, but having a interview

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  were lucky enough to win fourth prize, which means that we get some nice ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... , many hours getting to know my maternal grandmother, but my grandfather ... conversation in Bangla. I’ll never get to know him. I periodically deeply regret

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary ... that has worked so hard to get me here. What about all the people who ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• 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 ... don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the ... point and you’ll get the same shape. During the process of drawing the

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

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in ... , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... Bylinskii, helped organize. Speakers talked about methods to approximate where

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  another time"]never really expected to get homesick at all ... A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old ... recorded when I was talking to my parents about college decisions. To spare

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  hopefully, I'll get to share those things with you. ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  him during the morning assembly. But you are determined to get into ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear Report: I know that ... may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the ... deadline, you are fine for EA. Storm: Due to the devastating snowstorm that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005