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• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... fear to reproduce it in this post).  Insight: The &ldquo ... away from “bad guys” and throw a stone in a nearby well to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to ... needed to. On collegeboard.com's website, there is an option to send scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... made a valiant effort to get through my backlog of games. Since freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  background and ability to pay (why else would I get bullied in to sending in my ... . To get in, you must either be the next Newton, or filthy rich. Good ... Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , or, in some cases, freshman year.  The differences meant little to me then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... most prevalent and preventable problem in developing areas around the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  chicks about to get eaten by a petrel until a tiny Adelie penguin runs in ... Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill ... now. i like to write (mainly poetry) and i am also trying to get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... thinking that it was in February; I don’t know why, I didn’t even “get ... confident in describing myself as “black” or “African American” in addition to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  remains a mystery to me (though I did try to find a pattern in the prices). According to the Fair’s website, “the value might derive from the edition, the ... they ought to be in museums, but were instead bartered and sold by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... to help prevent burnout and introduces some variation in your life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and then wind yourself through a bit of awkward hallway to get to the library ... can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... delays in getting these issues resolved in comparison to the experienced ... few of them had opportunities in their undergraduate program to focus on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... entering. It’s so easy to get lost and go in circles and be picking up and ... until 7pm. How to get there in order of lowest to highest carrying

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean ... this picture below posted to the website www.howeandser.com from 2006 ... wonderful happened in the year 2006. Some MIT students decided to go all the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  in my opinion a bit absurd it is okay to make mistakes like getting ... adopted neoclassicism, an art style which in many aspects attempted to ... rejoin even when their peers would be happy to have them back in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but ... also just a really good way to remember the people who have helped me in ... another time"]never really expected to get homesick at all

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  strategy so you never want to visit their website or see their logo ever ... have been helpful in exposing me to new concepts to think about and ... --rare and funny to see so many professors in a room bantering. jamelle bouie

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic ... Jennifer's Comics. Jen is also a fantastic baker -- if you want to drool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006