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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -based methods, and I am unfortunately not very interested in AI.] But, now that I ... Wow I haven’t blogged in one million years! I feel like I’ve written ... and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... personally identifying information and let the community analyze it, because in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  didn’t really need any. I attended a Google event in which engineers ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  topics. In fact, I think I'll link random words in this entry to some ... blogging for over 2 years now. Every once in awhile, I run out of ideas. So ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  upon the method of exhaustion, i.e., in modern phraseology, upon the ... entirely by the students: in my experience so far, after a few starter ... -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... the greatness of SHASS in other posts. Last semester, the awesome ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  Google Games in April, then What’s that Spell in October, then SUMS over ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  month later. Two Novembers 1st's ago, I visited the Google office in ... early actioners, whether you get in or not, you did it. You applied, pat ... someone who's not even the valedictorian or has never been in a science fair

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so "afternoon ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  Google dot com and type in “animation for high schoolers.” When nothing ... admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  LaTeXed but completely in Latin. You close the box and find that the ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... which one it is. The example scenarios in the problems grow increasingly

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... , steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... blogging isn’t my “job” anymore), even harder. Many things in my life are

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... high, decisions are coming soon, and everyone is hella stressed. (In case ... when the time came, because who wouldn't be? My usual defense in this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... discussing it.  Some people are better at being louder in meetings, at ... in design schools are expensive and computers are cheaper.” He

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015