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  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... technical. Finding and working with pset buddies, walking over to exams in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous ... can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ... Equations. Uses a lot of beautifully crafted visuals in each video to make it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve ... pull in extra furniture to ensure everyone has a seat at the table. Some

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• 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 / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... bus trip to a random liberal arts college somewhere in the Northeast ... like I just stepped on campus to begin preseason, and now I’m handing in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... in no way saying that everyone needs to join a sorority, but I am ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in ... of verbal problems in a format identical to the SAT exam.” Half of the

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

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  write about a robot opera in Monaco, got to hang out with one of my ... consider to be my life role models. Both of them have seen me grow in a lot ... them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... ,[/annotation] so I decided to perform anyway.  The thermocline in a lake or ... , in order to submit a paper, I had to start writing one. But my PI

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in ... and went to grad school I thought I had figured a lot of things out, in ... . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... ’s just something about finding the rhythm in a song, and absolutely ... weekend in Vermont is the culmination of that—a chance to hang out with my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston ... black-and-white figure in a paper, and comprehensive scientific controls

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  ? Maybe. But that's assuming the three of them can find a time to gather, in ... ,[/annotation] because I want to think about the Hunt in a context bigger than fifty hours ... 's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... wood panels lined the walls, a grand desk stood proudly in front of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ="101923" /] In the fall we also went to a retreat with these students to New ... consistently setting aside time to read my Bible and in the beginning this was a ... :18-22? Crazy!), and it has been a game changer to have people I can grow in faith

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  for referring  to other bloggers in a blog post)), getting dressed for a ... be a "tool" is just a way to avoid trying to find out who you are as a ... often find themselves with six to seven classes a semester, get straight

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  a vacation to the moon in a homemade rocket in A Grand Day Out with ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... 697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the

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

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  submitted a "rebuttal column" in response to this column posted in the Tech ... yourself a ticket to one of the best medical schools in the country ... so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011