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

  

  an MIT admit. I took the class in the Spring and fared decently ... Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... sentimental. It reads poorly. It clambers around in naivety, sending any

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Zelda. In the end, about the coolest thing we saw in Bonn was Beethoven ... reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... behind Germany time anyway. But Germany was in the semifinals on July 4th

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning ... of shaping new developments in the world's train networks were starting

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  contacts (stored by Facebook and/or Gmail) My calendar (stored by Google Calendar) My other documents (stored by Google Docs) My other music ... living in the future, you guys. 

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  edged into those rare un-mathematical intervals of time. To start: I had ... 'm pulling my weight in getfit@mit. With every sore leg, bruised foot, and ... -walked along the Charles to put in some minutes for getfit@mit. I was happy to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... email! Abby,   A Google search of MIT MacGregor House led me ... rare feedback on questions you raised in your video. I was one of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best ... , concerto competitions, All County, Interlochen) Art (e.g. placing in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As ... . Thanks society. Every once in a while it's important for an MIT student to ... in a good mood and ready to sit down and chat with you at any

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County ... to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  American Heritage Dictionary and is included as a unit of measure in Google ... unique sense of humor, as expressed in the arena of hacking. Hacks at the ... creativity, cleverness, and difficulty of execution. A 1958 prank in which the
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to hang out, do their psets, and meet other people in their course. A few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... in Florida for winter training for crew, followed by almost two weeks ... great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the ... in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... in a box outside 7-103.) Amongst a sea of generally well-dressed, well

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because ... absurd amount of fruit snacks in the past month. Despite the covid

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... then Google came along and ruined everything by releasing Gemini, their GPT-4 competitor. Unlike ChatGPT (running GPT-4), Google’s Bard (running

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... , with each listing mashed up with a Google Map so you know exactly where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt ... "]four to six weeks[/annotation]. (Spoiler alert: it was not, in fact, general

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  enteras que he vivido aquí. Tengo una habitación en la Puerta del Sol, un móvil nuevo (cuyo número todavía no recuerdo), un abono mensual para el ... decir "la noche madrileña." In other words, I'm totally settled in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... Eva D. '22, who is also in my acapella group. In this song, the Baker ... work together in order to accomplish their goals in the woods

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020