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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  ’t control, everything. In 6.832: Underactuated Robotics, the whole purpose of ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  basement. The first few years of the ’93 dormitory and East Campus as a whole ... night in December of 1924, just a few months after the first students ... first mentioned the Dorm Goblin in February of 1925, describing the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it ... faculty lunches that the Office of the First Year was doing were canceled. I ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  like the first 60 pages, but it got more coherent and I do now!) I ... it's open to the whole (of age) MIT community, this is not a good place ... complaining about a group of people that ruined the party they were coming from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  ="60414" image2="60415" /] Elements of Chemistry. The first-year chemistry class ... first-years today choose their courses, which is at the end of their first ... is the first time we see mention of the number of hours, probably a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  five whole pages of Daily Confusion. And that was only for the first day ... ="1222"] there are FIVE PAGES of this. from the tech[/caption] So FSILGs ... genuine concern, since 40% of first-years lived in FSILGs at the time. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  roof below—I know I must be in the right place. The first floor of ... trials the dorm president delivers the first strike against the wall of ... (which just happened to also be the first week of classes (excellent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and ... birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  , towards the end of the first trimester of high school senior year, I was ... was the first time I had heard of Penn, and my mind hadn’t yet been ... pure, crazy anxiety permeating the pages of CollegeConfidential was this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  another soul for sale, oh well The page is out of print, we are not ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a ... listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the ... longer Facebook in lieu of working. Then the 133 suite made a Claymation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... the time since I was 17, that girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  first initial proposal. We didn't actually include all of the things ... of walls. The esp32 uses depth first search from a random starting ... me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  are the reviewers taking a bored, cursory glance at the first page and ... and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• 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.

  

  nor equicomplementable. Hilbert’s third problem was the first of the 23 to be solved. The first part of the problem, on equidecomposability ... gets the same whole number of pearls no matter which of the two

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

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week ... 's the same amount of work, with only 5 Psets for the whole semester! Once ... make up excuses like that I didn't know the syntax of MITx, but the short

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21 ... , hundreds of words flowing easily onto the page. there are some memories that ... through the whole spectrum of human emotion in just an hour.[/caption] i

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , finish the bottom half of the Red Line first, do Silver Line 4/5, do the ... . The page writes that Mick Jagger said he’s a fan of the bear! Woah. Hey ... ="59025" /] Alan: This was the end of the Orange Line, and therefore also the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  sketchbook pages over the course of 2024. However, in the middle of the spring ... of the final eight-page layout of the spread, though it was really a ... prompt for the first project was to make an analog camera capable of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025