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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  here do not deserve recognition but rather that in choosing to display ... , Eric J. Goldberg, Wiebke Denecke, Keeril Makan, Michael De

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you ... the semester and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals ... into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant ... , physics (2004).” These Nobel laureates do not sit perched in ivory towers ... , you can do research for all four years of college and who knows, maybe

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

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... was great. It is not always possible, as our alumni do work and have ... chance to meet the alumni who will be doing their interview. Here I'll put

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... same diff it doesn't change what you would actually do per project ... decide you want to completely switch everything you're doing. Also, funding

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  process as long as possible. You can do that without losing flavor because ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... 't seem like there was ever a big identity WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  things to do from 8am to 1am, all jam-packed into about seventy-five hours ... , at least there were always interesting things to do and think about ... to do become as long as the infinite corridor, but unlike during CPW

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  .08, after Raymond and Aiden had convinced me that I should just do it because ... hadn't figured out how to do it, and I left feeling like a disappointment ... . I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. And I did! [embed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is ... research you’re doing for a paper, and almost anything else. Vim, a popular

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p ... people in my wing, like “What do you miss most from high school?” or “Draw ... ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  August 9th with surveying and flagging out the footprint. Doing this ... we needed to do to get a second floor unit in place. In recent memory ... . Another task we used large groups of prefrosh to do efficiently was building

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  exactly what they’re doing. :’’) Not me. I entered MIT with the vague ... . Ever heard of CourseRoad? It’s this beautiful little web site (actually ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  smelly bus in Spain -- with music blasting in my ears, and do that thing ... I decided that one cul-de-sac was no riskier than the others, so I ... books and do the things I wanted. To some extent, I did. I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  this as my reality, letting my work define who I was. I stopped doing the ... so boring? I felt stripped of all the personality I had from doing the ... aimlessly on the web. But on a deeper level, I realized it was myself. Drive

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  : "So where do you go to school?" ME: "Oh, I go to school in Boston." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM ... reason, I do feel like sometimes saying "oh, yeah, I go to MIT" sounds

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  I first saw the job posting, I checked out the MIT Admissions web site ... world can't find any students who can build a decent web page? (Answer ... around the clock, doing homework, sleeping, whatever. Most were bloggers

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  helping hand - hey, we've all been there before! * Generally, you are doing ... . Studying usually involves doing problem sets (the equivalent to homework in ... of what the people around you are doing, it is the most important to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do ... % of graduate students https://web.mit.edu/facts/enrollment.html ). In ... growing it out and find someone to do your line). If you are looking for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  do something together, and so puzzlehunts have a special place in my ... Rats featured this little fella named Zappy, who's served as the de facto ... living now? and What's it like working for AoPS? and What do you feel about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  's wrong with OAuth? I don't remember what their answers were, but I do ... anything from doing weekly setup and teardown, to helping organize one ... , not everyone who joins a Guild game or comes to Squares will do one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023