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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  instructors told me each experiment we do in 6.2410 (around two hours each) can ... need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a ... do with birds? Not much, to be honest, but I just wanted an excuse to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  myself to do a coding class in high school. Somewhere along the lines ... doing everything I'd like to. Stage 5: Acceptance The last stage ... : I simply cannot expect to do 60 units and[annotation note="i don

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever ... last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into ... fun. Having no responsibilities for this period of time, I wanted to do

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... —we overshoot and get too cold; too little—we take forever to reach 67°. Do we ... for 4.341 often meant going somewhere and doing something that wasn

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  essay that I thought I did well. But I would never wish to do it again. I ... because we had nothing to do. I miss how a lot of different friend groups ... miss doing one last run through as the sun set over the valley and the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... sand that we taught to add numbers (much, much better than humans can do ... insulators (i.e. they do not conduct electricity) because they’re held together

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  systems, which describes most robots that walk, fly, do backflips and other ... these few years. I did start doing better on the problem sets, especially ... . So essentially I flunked this class already and I didn't even get to do

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things ... the nearby bathroom... I do not miss those days ... [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  into my skin, and wanted to do something that mirrored desert fauna ... work with metal, so while I had some initial thoughts about doing the ... to power the lights, or do you need a bunch of separate plugs? How will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  genuinely passionate about what they do, and I found myself growing quite fond ... that I would normally never do. He was one of the top chess players in ... -question test. I was frustrated. Why didn't he try? I wanted to do math, not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  depression through cognitive-behavioral therapy begins to lose their mind - do ... something i really want to get around to doing during my lifetime then i ... , because whenever i heard someone say “why do _ if the world might end before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... class, if I'm doing better than my peers, or worse than. If the questions ... yes, I'm still doing really well for where I'm at. But I can't help but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  we were just doing drills, I would take every turn aggressively ... , we would do sprints in the Charles River basin, and I would yell into ... gossip and rowing and [annotation note="I don't do either of these things

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it ... countries and people need to give much more aid than we currently do. The current thinking of charity as something that is good to do but not wrong to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  that winning wasn't straightforward and that doing well depended on the ... integers with the greatest values (which you do know) and the lowest ... . They will do this using three rounds of evaluations in which you are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  teachers attempting to combine Rosetta Stone and mobile games and doing so ... they announced Arabic for English speakers. In doing so I found out that ... time to do so now. I come to circumvent this by remembering that Duolingo

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  questions and concerns regarding MIT, like: how do I know MIT is right for ... to mit. how do i cope with impostor syndrome?? And a lot of things ... there, and MIT is going to provide you those very resources to do it. Yes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  like why people play the characters they do, what that says about them ...  not by any means think I'd get in, but what do you know, I did. After intensely ... rough for me. I wasn't doing well academically, mentally, or health

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  would not have known that I could and do inspire others in a way I don ... deeper. why do you have this vision? why do you see this as necessary? why would this benefit us? And we searched. how do we impact others? how do

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  , random insults, do my best to simply ignore them as much as I can. And ... fighting for what's right is worth it.” --Secretary Clinton “Do not ever let ... in our American story—because you do[.....]you have to do your part to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017