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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  good chance to meet other first-years; and third, you get a requirement ... . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  broken by a series of buzzes and dings as our phones simultaneously received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... ] Toscanini’s is one of Boston’s best ice cream stores. We managed to get five

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  Messenger group chats to do a little analysis and see if I could get any ... seems to me like a much-needed upgrade from Facebook Messenger group chats ... . Over the summer, many classes were moved to a different system called

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , and then it stops for a while, before raining again. When you get caught ... you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you ... . Perhaps a week or two of classes would get canceled over the course of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the ... getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get ... time to get through Question 1 Part A of an assignment, lost to the point

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... sent to several sororities, telling them about a new contest that ... HTML file attached to it. An html file that, when opened in a browser

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , and I was even contacted by a company to have a coffee chat about 2020 ... [annotation note="Leetcode is a website used to practice coding challenge ... getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of ... MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  join. How should I optimize my courseload to get a headstart? I actually ... more fun than Y, but Y sounds easier and I want to get an A. Good news ... are where it's at. Also, it's really, really tough to get a C in a HASS

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... students here who could build a giant flamethrowing exoskeleton to invade ... , no less!) I remember back when CS was getting started - one of their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
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  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  took me to get this decision, I was also spending a lot of time on ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... . I thought this was just a laughing matter, but I was shocked to find

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  to a communal pot. The pot is multiplied by some multiplier (larger ... it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... story is to be continued.... Engine Behind every good chess website is a ... access the movement by indexing the table. For instance, a knight sitting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  a nice way to get outside, get some exercise, and get to places, but I ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... you'll get to join this elite Nobel club one day! 4. It’s a meritocracy ... as a “listener.” You can play a fun game by going to the subject

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on ... I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I wrote two posts about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on 8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011