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  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  there were seven Apple laptops in the car. I switched to Mac right before ... something that I would not want my mother to read, which is even more awkward ... , since it's such a huge part of your life, so I imagine it would be looked

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  and audience. My teacher clarified that I was not in trouble because ... media. That response surprised me. I'd been involved in the social media ... . I decided to propose a complementary course, one that would widely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  . Where sometimes, I would solve a homework problem in 18.701: Algebra I ... part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  subjects to succeed in later classes. That’s true, but I wanted to give the ... tests, I basically took the corresponding MIT course online. (In fact ... -studying conceptual subjects. I didn’t take AP Bio in high school but was able to review

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  so fast that I could barely keep them in the picture. Dan '08 presses ... !" Dan and I in fierce concentration, swords locked together, as Andrea '07 ... . If I had to describe pika, I would describe it as a liberal, hippie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... 's a neurologist at Mass General Hospital -- but I've learned so much in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... the entire duration of the trip, and at the very end I'm left in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  that when I got my admission letter in the mail, at first I was excited ... decades afterward, once I started working in admissions - we all just ... .']with whom I became fast friends.[/annotation] In those days, [annotation note

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I ... -altering growth. Over the summer, I fell in love with the idea of building something ... in this place full of opportunities and knowing that I failed to grasp

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  year -- maybe one of the UA-connected bloggers could chime in? I guess ... Mollie would you say having skills in just math is enough to major in ... Questions about class plans Nehalita asked about class plans, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won ... .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  . All in all, we extracted far more utility from that book than we would ... I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions ... ask this. I've spent my entire life in New England. No one on certain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  energy came through in Rambax’s performance. I loved that spoken ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our ... quality!) I was taking African Music this semester (21M.293, to those who

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... other lane is the fast lane, or passing lane. I drive defensively, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  TO: Elizabeth, Michael would you two be interested in presenting ... know if you would be able to drop by! Thanks I, for one, thought this ... butterflies and bunnies. I await your response in eager anticipation. Love

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... talking to other prefrosh getting to know the people that I would be going ... . Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  unmotivated. Ridiculous generalizations in both cases. I'll tell you this - I ... - but you would never hear someone in our office generalize an applicant ... : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  I thought about writing about walking on Big Rocks in the cold after ... in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the ... seconds. But I'm glad to have felt such cold up in the Big Rocks, as the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... , so I'm going to go through them all in this entry. These are totally ... speech. I also didn't know what order the ceremonies were going in. During

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008