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  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  engineering, computer science, and AI – all three facets of MIT EECS ... sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  number of...other things. Over the course of the next four days, I will be ... : the beautiful sounds of South Station (nothing) I am sitting on a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway” person.[annotation note="Is that a type of person? I don't actually know..."][/annotation] Like, seriously. Here’s the string of live-texts I put in my sorority

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... typing class where i first learned the joys of nitrotype and home row ... stint and i think i was capped at like 23 which is kind of sad) and doing

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very ... influence what slice of the Institute's culture you experience, especially ... mix of Cards Against Humanity and Pictionary! Shenanigans will ensue

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... out of my mind. I am taking not one, not two, not three, not four - FIVE ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  to offer (and stuff your face with free food!). Join a fun group of ... Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next week!!! We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2022! GET HYPE

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my ... , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of what's better (kind of like the Challenge Towers from Mortal Kombat). Now

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  offers a bunch of other training features that people are playing on. And I ... the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  more (and better) advice, check out "The Science of Scientific ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... school reflect these qualities. Some of them are already in your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth ... will smile back. And science says you’ll be happier too! Not everything ... languages. There’s a joy in learning for the sake of learning. Or petting dogs

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  parts: 4 weeks of product management 8 weeks of software engineering ... basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and ... kinds of interviews. This is not meant to be an end all, be all guide to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of ... facets of identity. There are so many nuances of friendships, academics

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... limits of what i thought was possible with present-day technology. in this post i’ll briefly summarize a few of my favorite readings from the class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  . But as a bioengineer, some of the science they incorporated and the way ... movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... long all day. Maybe it's because the tests of the five thousand or so ... , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  semblance of order instead of confusion-despair-and-fear, and suddenly my ... particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box, because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022