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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  first trick: Experiment #1: Testing the acceleration of a mountain bike ... last three day weekend. Thanks everyone for the encouraging messages for ... Upon conferrring me my black belt, my sensei also handed me a ruler

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... administrators) dressed up. Walking around campus, I spotted a member of the USS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... evil neighbor, a competing mollusk hunter who owns the dock’s only ... the words is irrelevant. Don't let the cyrillic stop you. Have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  . Decide on a path or prepare for all the paths. I might have been applying ... chemistry and the MCAT. I wandered around for too long wearing a mask that ... fits into the "prepare for all the paths" category. Say yes. You're a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  the Brass Rat elicits three main things for me: (1) a regular fondness ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out ... managed to figure it out, for the most part. [caption id="attachment_91429

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  cost of food to 1/25th of the meal plan charge (if you live in a cook-for ... here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of ... at MIT. Don’t ogle at the amenities. Talk! REX Life ≠ Real Life. A

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  -off for an A might be 90%, or 70%, or lower, or higher, depending on the ... a free Costco card for a day from the Institute. Go out to nature. I ... year, people feel like either “a shit” or “the shit.” But the first year

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Once a year, a different US city hosts the annual National Poetry ... one event at the Stata Center, which featured - you guessed it - a nerd ... ; even the very concept of slam reminded me of a few things that I should

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  for Learning and Memory's new home, building 46. The launch was quite a ... asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better ... 's a lion on his head. I also wanted to share the "Picower manifesto

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group ... recap, here are the groups: Group A: Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, Poland

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  is a science. Our professor attributes the success of viral phenomena ... IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a ... are not. For the curious: "DUSP EXPLORER is an online, interactive ... sustainable infrastructure for the US or the developing world. As I started to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject ... the surface and learning for the sake of a grade instead of for the sake ... high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a ... student at MIT. The design for my first piece A[R]MOUR, modeled by Divya S ... sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  100 list' did a lot more for my motivation to read. In the end, though ... bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task ... 's just for task management. Task management is for the school year; goal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... from my college experience? For example, I had zero doubts about being a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  class is taught by the legend Gilbert Strang, whom you may know for his 18 ... , so reviewing important concepts took a while, but the class is really ... credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year ... to know you. We know you've made the right decision for yourself, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  MIT site, you will find the contact information for your MIT interviewer, or ... well before the application deadline. Remember, if you are applying for ... interview before October 20th. If you are applying for the January 1 Regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  rebellion against the dictatorship in the Philippines and a metaphor for the ... I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... . Oral History - an interview with a family member (preferably over the age

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021