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Blog / Academics & Research
scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes
. Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... an email to a writing professor as to why you want to take their -
Blog / Classes
A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!
classes like these are such a great way to get your body moving and back ... before, but I'm just excited to get a project down and ready. Friday ... machine they found in the Vandille museum, but before they get a chance to -
Blog / Academics & Research
6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot
weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And now that I’ve taken the class, I get to [annotation note="Turns out FPGA -
Blog / Classes
Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!
auditorium, with overflow rooms and a live webcast, and covered by MIT News ... and took a leave from MIT to become the founding CEO of HelmetHub, which ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering -
Blog / MISTI
Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.
Contests, and even a Soccer Tournament I'll try to update this entry as I ... Infinite, I heard a loud boom coming from Lobby 10. Upon closer inspection, I ... , MISTI will be celebrating MISTI week. Right now, there's a lecture -
Blog / MIT Life
Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.
there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to ... first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... all your stuff and move to a different dorm. The day after REX ends -
Blog / Admissions
CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me
’s like a student holiday!” I said, “We all get to see MIT through the ... jokes get that positive a reception. I loved it. When it was my turn to ... possible deity that I'm not a high school senior. To get my mind off all -
Blog / Academics & Research
Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.
years. Also, I prefer to avoid it completely by (1) grocery shopping on a ... aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was written by a cattle ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I -
Blog / Announcements
For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can
you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... applications, educations, and most importantly lives have been interrupted by a ... , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas -
Blog / Academics & Research
So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.
magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little ... for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... 250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any -
Blog / Academics & Research
Wolfram Alpha Tonight!
want to a ridiculous degree of accuracy and depth. I can't get into too ... 't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... aren't familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a -
Blog / Academics & Research
A love letter to psets Masochists In Training
starting to get a little idea of what being a scientist feels like. You can ... MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you -
Blog / Events
Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge
(SLP) speaks to conference attendees Attendees and special guests have lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of -
Blog / About Decisions
the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you
on a first date. or, if you prefer, trying to get to know a college by ... recruitment cycle to a dating app. except unlike a dating app, when you get ... internship interviews is that it's not only a chance for the company to get to -
Blog / Personal Travel
Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.
managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something ... world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old Port, which seemed to be both old and a port (compare to peanut -
Blog / Academics & Research
Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me
experiences you have to get more insight on you as a person, you as a worker ... me about a time you had to work with someone you did not get along with ... already want to take a product and they want you to get there, so asking -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:
, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... to ask you. What do I mean by “meaning”? Do I mean to ask what the ... were a professor asking this difficult question to a group of incoming -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus, Part 2
's blog. Stuyvesant asked further, "what sort of a GPA do you need to get ... films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch ... that Will Smith turned down a scholarship to MIT to pursue his rap career -
Blog / How to Human
well, well look who's inside again
to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed by dismay to many people. I tell them "Yeah I feel like it's been such ... " and the responses I get are usually somewhat bland. "Everyone wasted a