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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  ;insert your own> degree of seriousness? In my personal opinion, the MIT ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  -founder of the Families and Work Institute. “Everyone needs to have more than ... . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle ... chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm. Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ’s episode of [annotation note="censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not ... of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... preferred temperature meter is"]70 degrees[/annotation] weather, as you will

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  MIT’s newest foreign language offered: Korean) I’ve covered most of ... of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... the sense of overwhelming relief. MIT has been home, sure, but it doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... is lots of fun with a variety of interesting threads (this is my

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  (General Institute Requirements) and while there isn't much leeway in what classes are taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  think all or most of us signed up anyway. We like helping.) Actually ... lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college decision. I would really encourage all of you to ask lots of questions this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... MIT Tracking System, though this could take upwards of a week. We make no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005