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• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . My setup is so much better now. When I need to make a PowerPoint for my ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... -cancelling headphones that I'd gotten from a summer internship would not connect to my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  writer, but also a well-rounded student. He’s also known to be an ... from Weinerschitzel (or if I got a long break to travel the extra block ... Arizona doesn’t have those things, it just takes a lot longer to get there

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  really being able to just select a class I want to take just like I select ... a couple. My approach to selecting a HASS class is that I want to take a class on material that sounds interesting. Some students like to

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford ... be making the trip to Hartford. Yikes. All's well that ends well. We ... rockin' (usually we have to bring that stuff with us). They had a free

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  classes -> started talking to a producer while helping make Pure ... -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... well. So sometimes I sit in a cubicle 9-5 by myself without speaking to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... follow what appears to be a consensus of bloggers before me and adhere to ... sentences? A: I don’t know. I’ll probably just take great care to avoid that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  've started making a summer to-do list), and also looking forward to doing some ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of ... supposed to be a lot of fun. I'll be testing that hypothesis. Aside from

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured ... of my shorts and trying desperately to find a date to prom. Then one

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... sounded agreeable, so I snagged a freshman (Trevor '13) and we went to ... mechanics of the frame while Jordan '11 did the painting. We had to make sure

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a ... friend who was on his way to a job orientation for the World Wide Web ... be serendipitous. One day, he ran into a friend who happened to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  people to death and they make the rest of your day a blessing). Talk to ... all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a ... living group; you'll miss a lot. If America's supposed to be a melting pot ... . Make friends in your grade! Although this is a spillover from the general

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... mainly about two things: how to make interfaces that are intuitive and easy to use, and how to develop technology that makes that possible. Before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to ... offense, meaning there is no defender near them, they tend to make their ... offenses try to make defense harder by spacing their five players around the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone ... have to begin treatment within a few days of symptom onset / a positive ... brought it up to my therapist, she seemed a little taken aback. "oh, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... break, some folks attempted to make actual change. President Reif and the ... like the classes most willing to make actual change were also the classes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  -town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  some advance planning to go to class, so I make a point to be up earlier ... here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a ... wanted to choose who I'd be living with, I wanted a place I could have a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  've had to learn at MIT is: hitting a wall is okay!  Actually, it's great ... , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... coffeeshop where the interview would be to make sure I wouldn't be late.  This

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  paragraph, and ultimately that is not a tradeoff i'm willing to make i don ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022