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  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... 's about all I remember. Battle on, Mandelbrot. My friend and labmate Steph '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... makes a big deal of the student's "scoring the magic 1600 on the SAT." Now ... has scores that are fine, let's move on," but it didn't really make an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... . We do our weekly meeting on Tuesdays (called Cruesdays) in the student

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area ... think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you're in your room, that ... sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  that would help me do well on this final. I spent two years not thinking ... .[/annotation] Then, you see the O on your transcript, thinking nothing of it, until you ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria: even though something, on the microscopic level, may be in constant ... experiences you'll end up missing out on - will taunt you until you turn around ... to wear yourself out. After that post, I've gone on to disregard each

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had ... a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... people this is wild, especially for someone like me who has always lived in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  classes: Math: [annotation note="Calculus 1 (5 on AP Calc AB/BC equivalent ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I have PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice. I traverse the Yard on Mondays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  promise. It means. That if I need help, I go on Piazza (Q&A class forum ... . INCAPABLE. DEPENDENT. Got a low score on a test that I knew I could’ve done better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... , not something an college bestows upon you. Last year on Pi day, I wrote ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  isn't so cold that I could slip up on hidden snow or ice. Commuting via ... other form of transportation. The route to MIT from where I live in the ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  , honestly. 8.021 I had another cute lecture today!! It was super helpful and ... MIT 2023 Vice President! My current project has been working on the 2023-2024 pen pal program, where stuco and I are working on pairing MIT 2023s with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... limits of my mathematical patience. On several quizzes and exams, I ... break. Luckily (?) for me, my floormates on Burton 1 have lots of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  about how fun or less fun each one was. On accuracy, a common thought ... “personality” across all circumstances. On 'funness', I love Elissa’s opinion on ... (pisces, cancer, aries, virgo, etc.) based on your date of birth in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... forms, it's a very subtle misattribution of traits based on the ontologies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011