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  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  acceleration in terms of 𝛉 and r, which is a lot simpler than x and y if an ... In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... there are new topics I've learned, and I'm very grateful for that. I took

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  , we headed to an off-campus apartment and kept raging, which for some ... ="lawn in front of the dome"]Killian[/annotation] for a post-finals picnic. i ... semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... permeates the air, almost electric in nature. It was one of the first things ... echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  silver color (for the metal buildings) and an orange color (although it ... ="1000"] laser cutting right angle brackets for holding things up ... supports for the elevated base of the building :-). [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  in an essay?" or something to that effect. As MIT admissions officers ... We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  climbing for the first time in ages. I'm refreshing my 18.701 knowledge ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... joys in my life have been derived from small, private moments--a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer ... brought back Stephen King's It (in Burton-Conner, we let people check out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . There is not always a freaking app for that. Take water again as an ... ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... . Every day, I've tried to do one nice, unexpected thing for someone. I think it's important to let the people in your life know that you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... hall. We went through them in an orderly progression - 1st through 5th ... Meh. My last, like, three or four ideas for entries have not quite

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... explore possible choices for my major.   Also, why am I interested in ... need for students to understand both the science and engineering of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  out. Based on these findings and priors, our goals for this redesign include: making it really easy to find what you are looking for ... , trying for a "single source of truth" wherever possible helping people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  club that is for LGBTQ+ folk in fraternities and Sororities! They host ... Queer West and Simmons Join Queer West and Simmons residents for an ... Thanks Yuliya for hosting this blog! I’m not out off-campus, so I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  common reason for injury is having something in your mouth while sneezing ... I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read ... sneezes per day than usual. I am not an accurate representation of anything

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  -electronic recommenders also have great problems in these cases, so black sheep is an ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a ... shower, got an early lunch, and took the 11am bus to wellesley. i caught up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person ... International House of Pancakes kind of sucks, in theory... it's relatively far

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT ... 's in over her head. For example, my 18.03 TA...seems a little concerned ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though, check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  Science, and Applied Biological Sciences", existed in the MIT Course Handbook for 17 years without any faculty or staff, until the last remaining graduate student lost all contact with the department. Starting in the Fall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities ... 'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap ... or lathe to winning the MacGyver Prize for creativity in that class

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025