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• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... Pod shuffle, and since she already owns an iPod, she decided to bestow it upon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... things that make you feel alive. every week i think to myself, well, this ... more thing that was keeping me afloat (like cooking dinner, or going to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  trying to predict the future than fully enjoying the present. I write this ... application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently ... ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school or fellowships, so let me bring you up to speed: Astronomy Graduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes ... 't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  , to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... this blog explaining why WISE is amazing.      Applying to WISE ... senior year. “Good schools do it,” he told her, so she googled it, learned

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an ... or puzzles), and very quick and witty. The only people in suits were ... running around New York trying to cram in as many experiences as I could

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... as we got on the bridge towards Boston, I knew it was going to be a ... random Bostonians. (Sorry the video is so shaky but hey, he told me to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  fields to more quickly harvest their plants Clydesdale: A handtruck that ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... what they learn to create an alpha prototype for a new product! It's an

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  MyMIT tracking.  Once we're up-to-date, we'll let you know, and send an email to those people we still need something from ... .  Feel free to ask questions here, if you have any! Sandy: If you were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for ... deserves some explanation: There are 30+ constituent colleges to Cambridge, each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked ... of other things. It moves quickly through different topics, all of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  tired quickly. We walked all the way from there to the Lusaka Post Office ... was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka ... ,000 Kwache each, which comes out to roughly $3.75). It was incredibly sunny

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  by a player who used data from Google Earth to generate Minecraft ... In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 outbreak, a group of MIT students came together to build a 1:1 scale replica

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  . (2) n. An inelegant shortcut to get something done quickly, for example ... skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  awesome - it's basically like Google Drive, but for you to make music ... , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020