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  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... . The actual topics covered are "Proofs and Number Theory, Structures ... check out the OCW course here or the current course here. In fact, the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in ... or driving across the country or exploring caves. Yet I was here, at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... another life. So I indulged in the visual fantasies, especially when I came

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  on campus – and a few places off campus – the money is deducted from ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the ... to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  Shuli: The new MIT Welcome Center opened in Kendall Square in September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... health with the power of time, the love of my parents, and the mesquite ... 't, attack befriend the nearest hipster and then come back to the end of this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  ) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  on the right hand side already says —  that the 2.s009 product launch ... Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. The final presentations always overflow Kresge Auditorium, and if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  the semester just started, but it hardly feels like school's really in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two snow days in the last week, which meant lots of indoors time. it's kind

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a semester-long class for mechanical engineering students. The class teaches students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  volunteers to man the Tim the Beaver costume that weekend, my response was ... down enough to send a coherent response and spent the next twenty-four hours compulsively checking every email alert on my phone until I got the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos, but the project has been limping along in the summer haze. It’s looking

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  arrived, he suggested that I borrow his sister's mountain bike for the summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last time I owned a bike, I was nine years old, The last time I felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  IN THE HELL?" Giggles floated across the hall from the other summer ... : under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael ... keyboard as well. Jenn, the perpetrator, tells us that there are a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... the magnitude system and optics. I talked more about the class here. One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... into it. Did you see that coming? Well, too bad. That will only make the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the ... ’t think I had much chance at getting into the Symphony Orchestra ... preparing an audition piece or go through the torture of auditioning. Luckily

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010