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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... approaches infinity. Someday, I plan to teach a literature class that has a ... , provided the counterpoint to a dry, overbaked textbook with too many pictures

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  MIT bloggers are planning to participate. If you have a blog, you should ... . -------------------------------- Responses to questions: BrittanyL, a '13 hopeful asked a really good question ... wanting to acknowledge it as a possibility) I know that a percentage of this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka ... another minibus to Manda Hill, a strip mall that lots of ex-pats frequent. I have to admit, the minibus experience takes a little getting used to. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it’s a real thing) to trying to get to find classes when buildings 26 and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  getting a glimpse into the humanities here. So here we are, about to embark ... significance and has a darkness about it that seems unfitting to the original ... to watch, and I’m sure a suspicious number of teenagers had a newfound

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  observed that "your last name* maps to a rare earth element whose compounds ... wandered around for a bit to calm my nerves. Finally, I walked into my ... MIT. I persuaded a few friend and family members to sit down and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a ... love and hugging. I was Secret Santa to Caitlin '15. We share a love of ... music. I managed to keep my identity a secret :) I LOVE YOU CAITLIN

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  injecting visibility:hidden to a div at the top of the page. It's been corrected and you should be able to click on things now, like blog posts and ... We've recently had a few readers email / comment that they were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  student center. This is home to a post office, dry cleaners, the ID card ... classes to have a cup of coffee, get going on my to do list, take a nap, or ... for not blogging in an eternity...) Back to Cena a las Seis, though

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible ... part-time, calculate your full-time term equivalency to estimate your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an ... , thought it was important for prefrosh to know about it, and did a video ... Program," a way for Livescribe to have people distribute pens, run demos

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

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  On college applications, you’ll probably come across a question like this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy ... allegedy within biking distance, but I’m far too lazy to even purchase a bike ... enough to engrave in a stone slab, but it's hilarious. Then in early July

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a ... A’s, planned to go to GSD (Harvard Graduate School of Design), dreamt ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  us decelerated. We all craned our necks to see why; a big black bear ... greater crime against the human race / Than when a father takes a razor to his own son's face," we cruised up to a high flat area called

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4 ... opposed to the rigidness of high school PE that a lot of people hated. Now

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a ... while trying to catch a bus? And remember how I was so Oprah ... introductory classes to improve their writing, or out of interest in a particular

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  similar vein to my first post which used Onlooking as a springboard. added ... class i'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as ... life here. this is a lot of words to say that i've been neglecting my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what ... though you were waiting to see whether MIT would give you a chance. It felt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023