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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Black Lives Matter until they don't.
week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had ... , but even as I’m tapping around and feeling both cards secure and in -
Blog / Classes
thoughts on math@MIT! math month post
Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in -
Blog / Challenges
head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes
further until I was eventually in the deep end. When I jumped in, I remember ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that ... that we’re learning in class. Here, I took two midterms last week, and a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.
their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... liver tissue than in static 2D tissue culture plates. What I spent a lot ... research projects; it's my turn! So since sophomore year, I've been working -
Blog / Classes
How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)
fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would ... in true MIT fashion, I leave the proof as an exercise to the reader ... . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.
Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am ... every other sentence in this paragraph.^_^) As I stated above, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix
I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... MIT grads in med school? Should I worry about that? And Lori said in ... were back in the day. As I hope you can tell from reading the blogs -
Blog / Admissions
Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road
that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because ... unfair and inequitable education is in the United States. I cried because I -
Blog / Admissions
Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!
When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... ), then it's back to square one. In my year, I think one team had to restart -
Blog / Academics & Research
Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!
to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in -
Blog / Life after MIT
MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…
practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... as a kid. After a while it became apparent that I was stronger in the classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.
DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.
World, or what I imagine Boy Meets World would have been like if I had ... school students, I decided that this anecdote would pair well with an ... .12 showed me that I really could do organic chemistry, if I just believed in -
Blog / Events
tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes
actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in ... salad. True story: I once failed a calculus quiz in high school because I ... beer actually replaces the yeast in ordinary quick breads.) I am told -
Blog / MIT Life
being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway
="aligncenter" width="225"] i was so joyous... little did i know how annoying snow would ... community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a ... stay in touch and support newer members, and i like my famline a lot < -
Blog / Admissions
The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…
that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical ... technique in Venice, Italy after I graduated and then entered a business plan -
Blog / Classes
Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story
, because I thought it would be mostly political theory, but I was assured ... statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and ... (literally) in October 2020. I am super excited for this, but the first lecture -
Blog / Admissions
You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)
, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go ... view an online version. I sent my printed-out-PDF application via snail -
Blog / Academics & Research
Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition
hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my ... potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2