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  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  different angles, and my  Single Variable Calculus class is no exception. I ... always loved math is probably working in my favour as well! During lectures, my professor brings up some interesting facts about the early

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my ... painted my weaponry black (leaving the barrel orange, of course, so as not

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the nature of my comments comes not so much from a lack of enthusiasm as a lack ... recall my 7.06: Cell Biology final exam, where one of the problems involved

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... , write my name on those tests, walk out, and still graduate. I'm still ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... , good enough. Then I visited Dot, my across-the-street neighbor, and she ... 'm worth $1,680,000, so you know you can respect my opinion. Extremely Loud

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  my eyes, you are done being prefrosh by definition on the first day of ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston ... , I can talk to MORE PILOTS and collect PILOT TRADING CARDS???? My nerd

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight ... -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... to the bit. (p.s. this is also what I want my signature French fries to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  had so far, and my company is out in Somersham, a nearby town. anyhow, you get the point: my home base this summer is a remote place out in the ... both in my life. i dont need to… pick? i feel like that’s a question that

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  phylogenetics. Put that down on my Wikipedia page [annotation note="jk please don ... )[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... steps to increase my daily happiness, and once all those steps have been ... commiserated. Was my behavior not shallow? Should I not be upset? Then in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  quickly realized something was amiss. “Has anyone seen my jacket?” Someone called from the back. “I’m missing my DSLR camera!” called another. The ... my lost jacket, exploring the city and working with the people there

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  guides, and, in my case, the students who took my classes. We have had the ... ; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... MIT education confers. An excerpt: i don't sleep with my grad rat on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some ... they’re available. My counselor/school already sent my midyear grades ... complete the form with your latest grades. My school does not provide

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some ... to us as soon as they’re available. My counselor/school already sent my midyear grades. Do I still need to submit the form? Yes. You are

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  (to my knowledge) even offered at my high school, at least while I was ... entirely to my strengths. I ate horse meat and strange sweets, heard the ... outside my hotel that resembles the its counterpart the Alchemist at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  I joined GEL because I want to be able to implement my ideas in the world. And people are half that equation. Last Friday, I led my wonderful ... simulation lab where we faced this exact challenge. My ELL team has a course

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some ... to us as soon as they’re available. My counselor/school already sent my midyear grades. Do I still need to submit the form? Yes. You are

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  -shirts and boxers for my baselayer. Cotton is fine for walking around campus ... . My coats that get the most wear are a wool topcoat from Express, a wool ... /mountaineering, I usually just wear my Danner waterproof hiking boots or Scarpa

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  on paper I was an “alien,” and I had an “alien number,” and my fate was at the mercy of a single USCIS officer. If I had to return to my ... gives you courage?” questioned a member of the audience. “My parents

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014