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• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  % of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of ... The six departments in the MIT School of Science are consistently ... ; Mathematics; and Physics. Members of our community study deep philosophical
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... , which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my ... also offers a more abstract approach of evaluating history through ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  's a snippet: ...while many universities offer management majors or ... universities, extremely open-minded and supportive of diverse populations, people ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... the latter, (Save your notes.) but sometimes, they can offer a little of ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  IAP externship offer for the month of January and had the opportunity ... to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  of Virginia to our neighbor Boston University, brought contingents as ... registration expenses. This coming season, NYU and University of Delaware are ... the rink, in and out of the classroom, offer a social component to an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• 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

  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 / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  the University of Vermont). Quick disclaimer, this is not cause I was ... , MIT-MEET, and MISTI-UK. All of these were through MISTI, so they were ... and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  Our applicants come from all over the world and from many different educational backgrounds. You should choose a college that will offer rigorous ... and extracurricular opportunities in your areas of interest. In other
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  Name University with lots of money and prestige, I hope that this is ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in ... among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on ... the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017