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  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received ... Creasy at the Johns Hopkins University (a fantastic school, btw) for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  I have tests in all my classes in the next few days so I thought it ... borrow a small, discreet digital point and shoot of the latest technology. The pictures will be slightly crappy but not obscenely so. Yeah, so that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day ... 's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... from the affected areas: you've probably seen the message elsewhere on My ... not, please consider visiting campus via the Overnight Program. Let me

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually set everything up. The Notion renaissance has made me reconsider the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... on Campus Preview Weekend. Who knew that the years I spent wasting away ... with 2024s and it's been an absolute joy. I somehow convinced the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  create opportunities to make friends, with the understanding that you ... friends with the people in House 4 because I walked into the lounge and ... walk into the lounge and say hi to whoever was in there, ask what they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... terrified of putting this thought out into the world. Hell, I followed the sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2028. This is an open ... the comments below, we're here for you.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn’t quite supplement the feeling of actually being on campus.  That being

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  . Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is, for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was ridiculous. The going advice is that you shouldn't go over 30% of your credit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2027. This is an open ... and never look back. If you want to talk to us in the comments below, we

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... CMS class requirement, but aside from that, I have the freedom to pick ... principles to understand the structure and reactivity of organic molecules

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking back on the post, I think its ridiculous. I think it is needlessly ... artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... increasingly interact with technology that mimics their own capabilities, the need for students to understand both the science and engineering of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... the original instead, because it's better. If the cover's bad, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  ,[/annotation] so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021