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  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... coding." Turns out, Jay had been an LA for some coding classes at MIT and ... punishment the user is at (default alarm tone for no punishment, aggressivley

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  it (I decided this at some point) and just take a break from it all for ... MIT (and for the upperclassmen at MIT?!!) FOLLOW THE NOVEMBER RULE. dear ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part ... than getting a Pirate Certificate (at least, that’s what I tell myself

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  place, a political writer, would look at my work for one hour each week. I ... the wage is above Arizona’s minimum. July 2019. Working at Target! Suffice to say it wasn’t glamorous. They scheduled new hires for 6am - 2pm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  in work. Incidentally, hosed has been in use since at least 1996, based ... shot at the moon. You don't know what you're going to get. You just know ... . You've heard the story, but you're there for new perspectives

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  last for the whole afternoon, opened at 11. Some people from the ESP team ... , with us talking about why I did things for ESP. At the time, I said I did ... . Splash, for example, happens for one weekend every November, and it's aimed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  match for MIT." Or something to that extent. Yes, there are geniuses at ... , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come ... like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... overly aggressive firehose and it's just too much information all at once

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  up the points of the things I even wrote anything down for, they just ... strong negative memories of. But it's a requirement for the new 6–14 major ... campus at a desk I didn’t skim through solutions, hoping I’d get

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  Tetazoo has historically been friends with Blacker, a dorm at Caltech ... long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did ... representative of Tetazoo and Blacker’s love for each other. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to one day share more publicly. But for now I wanted to at least share ... talked about this proposal, and this need, at the next blogger meeting, and ... identities at MIT, where they felt welcome, none have been "out" on the blogs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  , Taiwanese.[/annotation] When I arrived at MIT in August for international ... vide the roll in rabbit bone stock at 139 degrees Fahrenheit for 4 hours ... , then seal. Sous vide at 130 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour. Remove

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  remained at MIT for another year as an Assistant Instructor in Civil ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes ... before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall ... classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  sorts of academic policies and issues at MIT: copyrights for MIT Theses ... academic policies for incoming first-year students! Starting next school year (2021–2022):  The spring credit limit for first-year students will be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  far away, because looks at all these new experiences you've had. The new ... ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... for what's ahead and I think the blogs are no different. There are 10

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  loss for words. You might be incredulous at the fact that I hadn't been ... and politics and sane living. At the end of my MIT interview (which, for ... of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... discussing it.  Some people are better at being louder in meetings, at ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus

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