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• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  pointless, but not so hard that most of the class couldn't do it. 'Twas I who ... just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the easiest and the most realistic. No one has ever walked out of an exam saying

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  It was sometime during Act III of finals study week, in the pressure ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... first final showed that everyone* interviewed found the answer by one of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... . I decided to share the wealth with my friends over the course of the ... The time is 11:23 am, and I am sitting in the Student Center. Then

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that ... us think of "noise" as unwanted sound - in astronomy, it's the same ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... middle of the woods in Vermont (yes, I wear flannel and do square dancing), and I started photographing the moths at my home. By the end of high

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... the creator of FiveThirtyEight, the stunningly accurate statistical ... election.  In 2008, he got 49 right.  (and, of course, there's the other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  all the accepted students! Last year, a number of "MIT Class of 2013 ... linked to here on the blogs (although I wasn't a part of the "we", then ... * official. I'll see if they guy who started it will make one of the bloggers

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... "]slither.[/annotation] Without further ado, here are the furry fish of Tetazoo: [carousel ... number of residents who identify as furries"]furry residents

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can ... semesters in classes like 1.050, 1.035 and 1.036 learning the fundamentals of ... the future (I am heading into a little sub-field of civil engineering

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit, the kids got to make flat versions of themselves and the teacher had them mail them to people they knew outside the city. I was, of course

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is ... director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  's entire stock of organic portobello mushrooms. Think of the vegetarians, people! -dumped (with the aid of other SH residents) six thousand neon ... of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the ... reality. The mission of the MIT Office of Academic Community, Empowerment, and Success (OACES) is to champion the success of students who have
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail ... backdrop of the rain. It was abnormally warm – maybe as high as [annotation ... end of it; and the end of sophomore fall. Standing under the monument

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  summary of the event. ____________________________________ At 12 years old ... electricity or Internet access, Lou realized the amazing possibilities of modern ... person today has potentially more impact on society than the President of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch ... HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and am now the director of. HackMIT is a club that helps facilitate

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is ... 're able to see the bigger picture and realize that it's not the end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  insane amount of activities happening regularly, the short answer is yes ... Mikey, our director of selection, who has experienced the same doubts ... can afford MIT. We know that the cost of MIT factors into most students

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of ... represent the American Astronomical Society as part of the Congressional Visits D- Man: Okay, the scheduler is currently out of her office, but I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014