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• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  is three hours long and stays fairly faithful to its source material ... much else to say about those dark, dark weeks. When you think about it, the concept of IAP is pretty amazing. It’s an entire month of freedom

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  ’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we ... the problem is not how much we have to do, but how we think about it ... even how much they fail at MIT and just don’t talk about it. In debate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  wouldn't unless I get into USAMO? And if it does help, to what extent and how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... depends on how it fits into the overall context of your application, but you

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  questions become: in what cases does it make sense to assess these platforms ... and more pertinent. What does it mean for infrastructure to be neutral ... with high infrastructural power does not necessarily mean it is despotic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ... , and then we have to teach people how it is that you take raw ignorance ... something going on and articulate clearly what is it that you want to know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  (you're still going to do it, right?), so long as no pictures are taken ... 's not how the original philosophy went. But whatever.) It makes me happy ... than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  "]what YC does.[/annotation] You feel trapped in the bubble of it all though ... it so much worse and you give advice to others about how to fix their ... know how to and just choose not to. So you grow a little better at it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  , K., texted me asking what was taking me so long to get back, since it ... ="I distinctly remember thinking, it must get better, right? and it does. that ... .[/annotation] It makes me ridiculously happy – I'm glad that people find my space

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... lived experience. However, I can help you think about place and how it ... Taco Bell Index, but it’s much more than just Taco Bells), or seeing how

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  easily articulate as to why it feels like this. But it does. Movement feels ... works. And how can you talk about Celeste without talking about its ... convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  making friends in general, I’d say that it does require effort. You have to ... quantity. We don’t measure it in odds like 1 out of 8 or by how many Facebook ... believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its ... foods sweet without affecting other flavors. The change lasts as long as ... its own fruit tasting party, with freeze-dried miracle fruit pulp pills

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  composed symphony. How often does an opportunity like that come around?! The ... violinist in MITSO, it was quite an interesting experience unlike any other ... modern piece, and boy, was it fascinating (and at times, difficult to learn

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  usually. But I genuinely felt I learned so much no matter how long it took ... major. Not too long before that, I blogged about how I had no clue what I ... sure how effective mine is, it usually works alright for me, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too easy, too hard, too long, etc. We told him we felt it was too long (and ... amazed by how considerate and caring all of the 8.021 staff were and it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  covering this story. How does this stuff relate at all to what happened last ... like this: I took a week long course on how to be a leader in engineering, extracted parts out of that and applied it to how the newspaper put out a

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  ?” someone asked. According to Google, 6:00 pm. “How long does it take to get ... us took the [annotation note="An excessively long route, but hey—it was ... … freedom :D But what to do with it?   “What time does the [annotation

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , which, believe me, has a long-term impact on your life. It is much more ... may not realize is how the culture can change your outlook, and that it ... about how it works for incoming freshmen, but... what happens in terms of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  it." We don't need "proof" but it does sound like that letter would be ... ? My TOEFL, however, is very high (270 out of 300). Does it help?" Your ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005