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Blog / Admissions
Did the quadratic formula explode?
ultimately will not be able to admit everyone, or even most of you. But -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
Will I receive AP/IB college credit?
MIT doesn't require applicants to take advanced courses beyond what is commonly available in high school. However, many of our students, either through their schools or on their own, have taken advanced -
Blog / Life after MIT
[Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz
.” No, that doesn’t mean my homeland fell into the ocean, or was destroyed ... hold treasured memories, I can’t revisit or reconnect with the people ... you are stealthy, you can search for it at the Wayback Machine or read -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Semester of poetry
questions, or creating images, and then trying to demuddle them. I started ... problem, a project, or something else, I think the difference is that there ... Of a demonic circuit or hamster cage that became a river of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective
by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... work as an extension of myself, or as a deep excavation of my inner life, or perhaps the more accurate statement here is that I view the -
Blog / Challenges
magicians trying to learn magic
instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... or leading by example. when i see someone who can consistently do this ... didn’t compromise on substance or truth. i felt endlessly drawn to their -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
what i drew this summer i took an art class
much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a picture book or a graphic novel or something in that nature started -
Blog / How to Human
Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos
hard. Unequivocally. That's harder to stomach. These are certain. Or at ... . There is a way around or through anything. Lean into it. Inspiration is ... or elsewhere. Let your truth change. Put peanut butter on everything -
Blog / Classes
Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons
measurements with my DemoSat in the fridge, or against a ceiling light, or ... setup there, or maybe I'll move it outside of my brother's makeshift dance -
Blog / MIT Life
warmth feelings i miss
last time we met, which was like, six months ago or something. and six ... socializing or spending time with people. but things have felt like, different ... cpw, or something. and cpw, in the relative scale of time that we -
Blog / MISTI
[JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."
the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... nod meant yes, no or neither so the phrase didn’t mean much of anything ... part of my nature or had people really been more aggressive to me because -
Blog / Academics & Research
Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.
quite sure either. But the people running the event seemed to know (or ... or very excited about integrals to fit in, do well, or have fun at MIT -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…
byproduct of language, or did language arise from music? "Music is auditory ... or more about transmitters as/than receivers. 'Beauty is truth, truth ... -yoku (taking in the forest atmosphere or forest bathing): evidence from field -
Blog / MIT Life
A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…
voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second ... insultingly shallow and biased descriptions of the dorms, each in 144 char. or ... , but more or less aligned culturally. Lots of kids who love deeply nerdy -
Blog / Admissions
More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!
students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those ... asked me "would you like to be considered for a spot, or have you made a ... sentence, or anything resembling it, was in my actual e-mail; however, it was -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple
generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to ... these activities, inviting us to climb at MIT's bouldering wall or go on ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.
pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or ... rows of desks, or rather huge tables and individual chairs. I had so much ... this week. Fifth-week flags, or notifications to people who are failing a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Past, present, and future
basis to support or condemn it because they don't know that there was ... future generations of students. Do you like or live in Simmons? Students ... stories of their battles, whether they won or lost them - in the former case -
Blog / Admissions
Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.
or Northen Nevada, one of these kind folks could be your interviewer ... , homecoming, pep rallies. But ask any MIT student/alum about the Brass Rat or hacks or whatever, and you'll be talking to one excited MIT person. We