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• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily ... -2 and 8-2 don’t exactly line up, or that most floors of 11 are awkwardly ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  question, which was forwarded on to me by the awesome Nick '09: Alex isn't ... the Thevenin circuit doesn't. So the Norton circuit must be warmer than ... they are IDEAL current/voltage sources. As such, they aren't generating

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  learn this anymore. Plus, engineers don't do math. Sometimes if I'm lucky I can solve like, dT/dt - 2 * T = 0. The timer/integral display. You can't appreciate it here, but the little CLIFTON guys next to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  column earlier today. One of whom I don't think I've ever met before. Does ... you don't know them? It's a very odd feeling. I'm still at the point ... misquoted or whatever (which, interestingly, hasn't been a problem so far). I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn't ... hacker types. Don't look at me, I live on West Campus. Oh, but my life has ... haven't had any time to tell you about it! I discovered whether humans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn't ... day requiring some comfort food at the end. I haven't been to Star ... 've had in my wallet in the past week has been four dollars. I don't know, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  will MIT take from the waitlist? Is it true that you haven't taken any ... ? We won't know how many folks we'll be taking from the waitlist until ... admitted students. While it is true that we haven't taken anyone from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  your interviewer is. If you don't, you should call our office (617 ... interviewer yourself. If you haven't heard back from them, again, let us know ... , a device, an object, an idea or concept, a piece of music or art." Don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  contents: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven One It doesn't ... surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of ... the pandemic happened, and I didn't go to any. But last weekend I got to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  I'll circle back to this idea later. But when I got here, it didn't ... high school, it didn't really feel all that different; there is a goal in ... you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  . that doesn't help wayne: i mean it's easier if you go faster, it's like ... bikes i just don't like riding them. have i told you how i can't ride blue ... fine cj: it doesn't feel like i'm doing fine wayne: you know i took a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  . But if you do, you aren’t alone. 1. An Incomplete Understanding. More ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start ... ) the social and legal rules they should follow. Now, these rules aren’t

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  , also at 3 am. I don’t know if PUF stopped screaming at 3 am or if I just ... understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told ... I don’t consider it enough of a sit. 4. snuggling in weird positions

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  . you didn’t grow the lettuce or the wheat or the tomatoes, or crush the wheat into flour or cut the lettuce or tomatoes. you didn’t bring all the ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I ... how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we all trying to act normal all the time B: well B: don't say that, that ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  , invisible form emerging when it doesn't exist, a shape that clearly exists isn't ... random set of clues, but something connects them together. i don't think ... this image: if you haven't seen this before, it looks like black and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what ... , it felt like it wasn’t the right thing to say. Some drafts tried to ... . But trying to rush that process thirty-thousand feet in the air just isn’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021