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  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  some clever trick, but the truth is that I just invested a lot of time ... plenty of interesting stuff going on in a mathematician's head between ... ' (also a Fields Medalist) and John Baez's blogs in particular

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time ... blog, but also as a reminder for myself that this is what I'm thinking at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  day in August, I checked my parents' front porch for a package from IS ... birthday cakes in a simple 3-step process involving two safety trainings, a ... Back in July, when the Institvte first accidentally leaked their

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  "] the top left is a draft for a legal memo i wrote for my land use law ... possible in typed notes (unless you're a latex god, maybe)[/caption] This ... During high school, in many ways I had horrible study habits. Since I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  -sized, in fact, at least, in terms of cyclotron. The final machine is about a ... . Once the research is complete, I will co-author on a paper describing the ... '11 (Course 18, of Putz in East Campus): "I have a story that is a good

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... unfinished. They kind of just sit impatiently in my Documents Folder, bidding

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  as a photography hub, but if you look in the right places you will find ... the planet. A few cameras, classes, and hours and hours in the darkroom ... of MIT’s fantastic photographers) documented the PSC fellows in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  language that you don't speak - which will be documented in p-sets and even a ... . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... documented in this flattering picture, with a small side of window shopping ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  class is located in the T Club Lounge, also known as a random room at the ... /how long until I take classes in my major, the first thing I mention is the ... . These can be earned in various ways: Classes: A typical PE class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  first blogged about this back in my first year at MIT, so this is a perk ... think it through in advance. Also, having a car in Boston is a bit of a ... price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... to fit in with. Coming to MIT, though, proved me completely wrong. I ... quiz is separated into two parts -- a written section and an online

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  , there is a well-documented psychological phenomenon called impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome, says Wikipedia, is "a psychological phenomenon ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  (driving in Boston is a piece of cake compared to driving in India) were SO ... learned to fly in: a G1000-equipped Diamondstar DA40. This one is kind of ... one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  's really cool. I think you're unique in your thinking and this is a great ... : [Xiao Chiao (a famous beauty in ancient China)] Host: "Do you think he ... So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ... introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... , compassionate human being who plays well in the sandbox with others and is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  throwing my insecurities into the depths of the Internet is a step in the ... integral of your speed-time graph will do just that. An integral is just a ... zooming in: And then suddenly, if you zoom in far enough, the curve isn’t a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  applications, sitting on the admissions committee, or [annotation note="In a ... you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... Preview Weekend In the fall of 2017, I introduced a new set of brand

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... -day weekend. They emailed faculty directly when necessary, took in a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  attended. In a room in the student center, the organization had put about thirty chairs in a circle so that anyone could stop by and ask the author a ... session later that night with Cliff Knechtle, a Christian author. The writer

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008