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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill in our names and sizes. I realized right away what they had done. They ... and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT. This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  , 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of ... were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board ... journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've had ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is iCampus, which is funded/sponsored by Microsoft. Undergraduates

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE APPLICATION PROCESS, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR! I need a big favor! I am up to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  quickly realized I didn’t have time. I hung out with my pod a few times per ... working with the meche community. I went to makerspaces about once per week ... take less than 60 units? As of writing this, I’m finished with my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  , Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more ... from throughout the duration of last year that I would not have any ... them. I think it’s interesting to look back on all those little

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  your answers. 2.) Find Fun Google Chrome Extensions I have a ~lot~ of ... A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old picture. Instead, I found a nearly one year old video that I accidentally

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... Agency (CIA) iRobot Biogen Idec Bose Goldman Sachs Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies US Patent and Trademark Office Google Los

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  -based experiences as well. For example, the course I typically teach, known as 6 ... taught in lecture-recitation-tutorial mode: students spend two hours per week attending lecture (as a class of 300); plus two hours per week

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  , when I make mistakes occur at lab, I mourn for about ten minutes, then ... mistake once." I don't think I've ever pushed the bounds of mistake-making as far as I have this summer, lol. Except with these three experiments

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  research. Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, is a
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  100 pages per week, 70 when I was slacking. I pulled my first pset ... my output is ~8-10 pages per day, I don’t feel exhausted. I know that I ... , as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  a bajillion pictures - as per female i ... Twelve hours ago, Mathura '12 and I had the following gchat ... , i just ran around the floor screaming me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  This semester I'm taking a class called "Sustainable Energy," and so far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received ... backwards: 11,373; 10,440; 10,466; 10,549; 10,664. One guess per person. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017