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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  as your grade for the whole class. Seems kind of risky, but maybe ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B ... assignment. In general, I find that professors are understanding of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  to be one of the most stressful movies I’ve ever seen, and the first ... difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

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

  

  the game crash at this point?  3 people. The first was, of course, Blue ... Golden Ratio, It’s the first three digits. I just kind of picked something ... I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at

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

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this ... lecture hall Sleep before midnight on most days of the week Don’t lose ... photographing Boston Ride the full length of the Red Line Attend all the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  chemical engineering professor in hopes of resurrecting the audio-thing series that Petey started in the blogger days of yore. I didn’t really have ... I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... of the most vaguely negated sentences ever or what?), but this one was ... the undependable nature of our printer to announcements for parties to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first ... some of the first government-sponsored adoption of blockchain technology ... ideas and research. Hassan embodies the spirit of risk-taking and acting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of ... used to all of that. At first, I was terrified to cross the street, but ... whole other kind of culture shock, where I was in most settings the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  first floor of the Student Center and stayed there for two weeks! The ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... of STEM that goes on, but we were not so aware of the vibrant art

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  do think Hawai'i changed that and made me a bit more fond of the whole ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall ... videos like the one we featured of MIT’s amazing acapella group the

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images without the constraints of pre-drawn lines to color inside of.  There are ... vegetables, and then suggesting that I might send the evidence of his misdeeds

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the ... field of Computational Geometry) are both wonderful lecturers and the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  the bottom of this page reads: “There's no copyright, but holy leaping ... example from the other day, for Semantle #13 (on 2/11), some of my guesses ... , the “score” is determined by word2vec, a cool way of quantifying the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  deadline?" or "how many letters of recommendation do I need?" Please ask the ... whatever reason, asking questions in the comments section of a blog post seems to have become a thing of the past, even though site traffic hasn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at ... Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  , immediately following CPW. I had two finals, the same day, the first day of ... have a Brass Rat. I've completed most of the "book" classes and am about ... of the semester than the beginning), and 2.004 was just, well there

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  , class of 1897. We first thought of the kangaroo which, like Tech, goes ... of 1930 to proudly wear the first-ever Standard Technology Ring ... member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015