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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... who were different from me. I was always very constant in my emotions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in ... . MIT students work to improve their communities in different ways, from ... way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  . With this award, we will honor work that impacts society in positive ways ... a living person or group engaged in what we believe is extraordinary ... are people whose work reflects the hopes that led to the prize in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... HackMIT, in our 2017 theme: Hack to the Future. On social media, the four letters H, A, C, and K are time travelers, journeying forward in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way imaginable - we have the same romanized last names, we're both in the same ... up the dilapidated drum set in the tv lounge, subsequently teaching me

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT ... about high school, potential majors, and what we wanted to be in our ... in less than a week. I was excited that I beat all the odds and that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push ... as the class was only three weeks long. The topics, in rough

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  intended midpoint, and see my friend Kamoya approaching me, in a significantly more reasonable-looking jacket. We take refuge from the wind in a ... UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I’m officially a junior (scary!) I figure I've earned some confidence in my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  departments, from the terrascope program, from mit libraries, students in engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany ... the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  solving problems in new ways, across many disciplines. Innovation means ... theme: the United States’ 2016 election, police brutality, progress in the ... societal and social in nature. Therefore, we must address these problems with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  , securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first ... --the median score is frequently 0; in 2015, it was 2 points out of a possible ... winner. In the MIT press release regarding the team's 2014 win, 2015

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  math but which are, indeed, math. In particular, math includes many of ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... things. You saw some of these pieces in an earlier blog post. Each of them

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  million in prizes. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition for students in grades 9–12.     On Wednesday, May 13th, I arrived in Pittsburgh and, as is tradition, invited enrolling MIT 2019s who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  about in my spare time appear in class. It's seeing my favorite manufacturing videos shown in lecture. It's learning the details of fin theory in ... Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  in the large washer. Chocolate and peanuts and granola make me groan ... , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time ... . Challenges come in bursts and send an electrifying signal to the brain. "12

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... . What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... . - My first interaction with Alan Guth was fraught with stress and in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... tutor in the class. My tutor was awesome and helped me through the material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014