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  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

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• 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

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• 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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  notes doc in my phone to write them down in case they came to me. (I would ... in this class. Had I not take 6.034, I honestly would have quit ... Aaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• 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

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• 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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• 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

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• 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

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• 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

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . For now, I’m struggling to coordinate communications between people in ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years, and I, too, will likely retreat to the bubble in the fall. For now, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• 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

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• 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

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• 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

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don ... I troop downstairs once a day to practice, trumpet in one hand and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i ... what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• 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

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  out after our clinic in rural Nicaragua. Since I don't want to ... deeper level of my UROP that I was working on during the school year in ... Since I discovered that under my new schedule, I practically have NO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008