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  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  sense of agency in your life will make you happier. It is a lot harder to ... months—but, eventually, you’ll get there. This piece of advice is a little ... decisions in a vacuum. Decision-making and identities are highly situational

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  thirty days in Heathrow and write a book about it (or shoot a documentary, a l√° 30 Days) – so this is essentially a dream come true. This experience also completes a span of organizations – in my three summers at MIT

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... thermodynamics in a single night. Of course, no one is actually like that. In ... is simply a difference in preparation. You learn this by being at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... .  In those situations, a new interpretation, spawned either by creative

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I ... may take many forms. What is it that you look for in an applicant?, some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• 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

  

  classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but ... person-who-is-successful-in-a-direction-you-would-like-to-be. Endear ... . Tasty and healthy. There is a farmer’s market in Stata on Tuesdays that is

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... there is really not a difference in our process between someone who scores ... math. So why, as the commentor asks, is there such a difference in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  International Honors Program: Cities in the 21st Century. It is a comparative ... feel, and debriefing and debating academic concepts is quite a change. My ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... they cool, make your sauce. Noted in the formula above, sauce is a ... one is a solid choice, in my opinion. Optional: add a fried or poached

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... window when you turn a corner sharply, and makes the seats in this ride

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  Adams, Terry Pratchett deals in hilarity and improbabilities. Here is a ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... isn't fiction: this is Earthrise, a view of the Earth rising from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  confident in declaring that Burton 1 is the best floor in Burton-Conner. Maybe ... not only is it your birthday, but you also just took your 18.01A final ... most popular floors in Burton-Conner floor rush (which is similar to dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I ... news is, like I said before, all this destruction is a good thing. Or ... , you become a lot better at planning and working in teams. You gradually

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that ... chalkboard is already covered in equations. The desks are covered in equations. The walls are covered in equations. Your notebook is covered in

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

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... -100 like a gazelle in a WWF mask). Fortunately for me, he was already two ... be the most helpful, so I now attend his recitation twice a week. He is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  in the admissions process; a ruling is [annotation note='The Supreme ... historically under-represented in STEM education. This is a crude standard, and ... —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... get perfect is an excercise in frustration. If you wait until you know

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... small depending on who you ask. And if a major is big, it doesn

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015