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  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  ’d already figured out what we wanted to build, a web-app for letting kids draw ... . It’s a daunting task, as the systems we’re designing are underspecified and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  World Wide Web* here. On a more general note, I think this is really the ... of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... year, and then, after a complete 60 seconds of awkward silence as the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function

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

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  sophomore now, my boyfriend is both a full-time web developer and a short film ... This Monday and Tuesday, undergrad volunteers banded together in a ... a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  seem, MIT has a thriving student theater scene. Though MIT theater is not ... -league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  web director. The EIC’s are in charge of the magazine as a whole: they ... 's story"]visual inspiration.[/annotation] In a related role, the web ... What is Infinite Magazine? Infinite is a student-run magazine seeking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  ? We are, of course, one node in a vast, interconnected web, but there is ... triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... valleys and mountaintops alike with a sharp, consuming pink and rivers grow

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  to check it out (we had a web utility that let us check out, return ... Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back ... . My phone, however, is a different story. The problem with the phone

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  decision using a special web page when they are released. Is this really true ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... know that becuase u will have a vast eastern culture to discover, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love ... programming exercises and larger group programming projects. This is a class ... requirements and things and also I really want to take it because it's a good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... , everything has. Including me. A lot can happen in a semester, especially a ... . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch up on. I've been writing this entry for a while now and am less than ... goes part 1: Random questions Akash asked a common question: "Is it true

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a ... , dark at others, and absurd all the way, tackling issues under a profound

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . Trevor is a fantastic web designer with really good taste in music (whose ... . This ended well for both parties - with a PARTY! Pun totally intended. "Hey Sam, let's have dinner." "Or better yet, I could have a dinner party

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "I'm so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does Caltech." Right. The ... ???" MIT does have at least a three day weekend every month (see last weekend ... "mental health days," this is a fairly common term (Google "take a mental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  identified a few themes that stood out—including the support web on MIT ... This semester, a great thing was born. MIT hosted its first annual ... , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon ... have a question and I hope you can give my your insight on it.. I'm going to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005