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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  Israel forever. It's really neat now to have a mental image for many of the ... clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... say about the summer is, “swiftly fly the years”. Be’er Sheva is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  a translator between fields, to be an avenue for the ideas, tools, and ... Hilbert’s third problem, the problem of defining volume for polyhedra, is a ... . Nevertheless, it seems to me probable that a general proof of this kind for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  hour of the pset. Drop date is when drop date is for a reason. The ... person taking a required class for the 3rd time. If you think a class sucks ... . Interviews are not just for the professor/grad student to see if you are a good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over ... really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  , let's be honest here for a second. There are plenty of very respectable ... 's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... thinktank nature of people around here. Thinking is a hobby for many people

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  that lay the groundwork for the challenges ahead.  A few things that I ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  made out a detailed schedule for the week yesterday, so I already know ... room for a while. Usually I would go chat with the lab techs, but almost ... for a large part of the day, but the running monologue in my head: "15

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... demonstrating the process from a more relatable starting point. However, this is ... system for organizing all the useful portions of the literature that you

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , for a few reasons. First, there’s no denying the prestige and stability ... ’s enough of a north star in the night sky for now. :) ... on the surface, and I’ve been thinking a lot about my career, work

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... Yee A friend of mine actually substituted the cap out entirely for a ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... help take down a hack. It’s back the next morning. It wasn’t ready to ... a different number on it, but the only companies that will talk to you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this ... school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... go deeper into the topics and learn more. Unless you are a math major

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... the plan for shooting the next day. Blue-tongued skink! Day 2 was a lot

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  for the sake of being a startup founder. Leave the water running Things ... published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... Co-Founder Matching? A one-minute Google search brings up more: The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  start of the semester was a long string of all-nighters. I came close, I ... when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... realized I wasn't enjoying it anymore. In a past life I would have taken the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  means that it is simultaneously a bridge for pedestrians, cars, and the ... stopped for a second, taking in the sight, music still blasting in my ears ... it had a name, and I’ve been calling it the Harvard Footbridge for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  (theres a 31 day free trial for nebula) paolo: also have u seen the golden ... voted for a punishment of 300, as well as the submission that invested ... this paper is also a fun read. For fun, a few games that didn’t make the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  hasn’t been seen around the lab for several days in a row, he’s probably ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab, debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015