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What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?
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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…
can follow him on Flickr, Facebook, and Instagram. Enjoy! Hi everyone ... months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... creates curved and organic forms. What helped me stay involved was being -
Blog / Athletics
Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.
can stand on the smallest of ledges, which understandably helps a lot in ... probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving ... trips to do some "real" climbing, and I hopped on the first one I could -
Blog / How to Human
Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?
ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny sink, where more water ends up on your clothes and the counter than on ... college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post
between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ... "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets -
Blog / Admissions
Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13
the Leadership Training Institute to help high school kids learn to be ... I am also a brother of Zeta Beta Tau here at MIT, working to help the ... cause! Come out and help us support the Children's Hospital Boston: it -
FAQ / Life and culture
What is Battlecode?
that will help you develop your skills, amaze your future employers (our -
FAQ / First-year application
Do I need a high school diploma to apply?
your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the -
Blog / Admissions
My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school
, Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in ... situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... get me a biology textbook and Feynman’s lectures on Physics because they -
Blog / Miscellaneous
In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal
insisted on having them up while i remained in the closet is a mystery only a ... on, and I slept on a twin sized bed. My collection of books—a mixture ... unknown origins—were neatly arranged by series and type on a tall, narrow -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men
white letters on a green backdrop, three Greek letters. *** A few weeks ... words on the screen would morph. Small shuffling sounds would ripple ... struck on her. She concluded with: “And the most important thing I learnt -
Blog / Classes
like a freight train a schedule post
semester, UROPing, and working on my novel. My classes have been the ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule post for a while. Forming this list has helped me remember the things I -
Blog / MISTI
[Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate
happy about my living situation, mostly because I'm in the same apartment ... unhinged as we want. Based on observations, we can agree that we share half a ... than I can count on my hands in Boston, and have been absolutely -
Blog / Academics & Research
making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class
the last month you work on a project where you fabricate something of ... installation as they require a well-supported roof. while working on the final ... to dedicate our lives to them. it’s hard not to be convinced when you -
Blog / Challenges
(Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home
difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on ... , i slowly made an active effort to make the place i lived in, mine ... ="Tastefully Furnished Lounge – the largest gathering space in Next House that's located on -
Blog / Challenges
Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21
eternal summer you left. Distance is to learn how to live on your ... kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and -
Blog / How to Human
How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20
people are on their own life trajectories, busy with their endless todo ... feeling of being on the absolute same page with someone else, of being known ... make our deepest contributions in the lives we touch. I’ve never -
Blog / Events
I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany
available to be hung in MIT students’ living spaces or offices. Students view ... tennis court on any of my walks to or from MacGregor. So kudos to having a ... bars is still sitting on my shelf. Why? This place doesn’t let you starve -
Blog / Academics & Research
January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive
I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata ... , we're stuck living among anachronisms. What do you think? What are your thoughts on architecture, craft, the intersections of design and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT
, cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer ... the phone on my mortarboard's y-axis. Also, about fifteen bobby pins to keep the dang thing on my head. I spent the rest of the night getting