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  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  joints. Then, we had to hook up the joints to a user interface to get them ... , namely toon shading, outlines, and hatching. Toon shading is a way to get ... is a way to get a model to look as though it was drawn with hatch marks

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... desperate to get some numerical data, so I attributed these disappointing ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  ’s pretty much also impossible to not know your professor. Instead of the ... that your professors are really awesome and fun people who also happen to ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... 'll form the relevant neural pathways to be able to readily recall this ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  enrolled at MIT. So for all of you who are looking to merge your talents in the arts with your passion for all things techie, look no further, you ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  . They say never meet your heroes, but I am here to tell you that Woodie is ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  computer. At this point you're probably wondering if I'm going to dictate my ... I digress, and I went off to start getting caught up with manuals. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ) had to say about it: I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  ? Sad is when you get an undesirable grade in a class or your favorite TV ... death. There was guilt that the last text she sent to me promised to get a ... remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my family. After we got off the first bus we wandered

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get ... ="aligncenter" width="251"] Kidist and I getting pizza in the North End in October! She (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  like fifteen hours of the game to get over that and acknowledge his ... didn't get to say bye to all the people I wanted to, which sort of hurts ... rigorous for my burned out summer brain. I guess what I'm trying to say is I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not ... your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay ... tiny. “Who’s your favorite supervillain?” We buzzed in to give our

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  upon hours of planning and effort to get the programs running this far ... to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at ... -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  schoolers (called Blueprint, and if you’re a high-schooler you’re eligible to ... battling wordpress to get this out so it's a little over for me"]I’m crunched ... and launched our website and our annual CTF puzzles and managed to get

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  / : -verb to calm down; to release oneself from inhibition, worry, tension ... as you right now. I'm about to submit the application to my top choice ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  until I found a way to get back into the hallway. After receiving ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  just more consistent and you know what you're going to get going in ... , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can-get ... have the grill and stir-fry stations, where you can get food made-to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025