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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... High Schoolers), and have noticed that many of them have similar themes. So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a ... , experienced some those feelings even before becoming a parent, because of her work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  replace most English exclamations, expressions of feelings, and terms. And ... . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the negative counterpart of scretious, much like “secretious.” For awkward

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... students' perceptions and behaviors. Topics of interest will include: dating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into ... for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with ... 'm ecstatic about, because I didn't particularly enjoy many of the required

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky ... (which involves a personal statement, a plan for finishing your degree, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Wiz anyway because of its association with food murderer Sandra Lee. So ... gave me plenty of great recipes for Apple Bake, Burton-Conner's annual ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• 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 / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  Three days of class: 20 sheets of notebook paper Four days of non-stop studying: 8 cups of coffee Three exams: 5 wrinkles and 3 gray hairs Having 2+ weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but ... name like Mathcamp, you’d assume we do a lot of math. And you’re not wrong. But everyone can choose exactly how much and what type of math they

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either ... our “daily walk” around the track, followed by a vigorous round of ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  "apply" section, which offers a related blog of encouragement from The ... , these web mockups offer a rare example of work I’ve made intentionally ... Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of the images themselves, offering concise, descriptive language to ... ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005