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

  

  understand, and ready for change. Topics include specifications and invariants ... representation independence; design patterns for object-oriented programming ... applications and to account for human intelligence from a computational point of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google ... of a simplification for how engineering works, because much of its ... beam made of wood. And while this works often for general calculations

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  opted for a coach seat—so I’ll be sleeping upright for the next three days ... train track maintenance, I’ll be sitting on a bus for a stretch of my ... a wonderful essay about the color blue: “For many years, I have been

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  : However, some of them, usually the problems that were stepping stones for ... “result” of each group reported to a manager. For any given group of 3, the ... CEO. For instance, suppose you have 9 test subjects, whose responses

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135 ... abbreviation for Reserve Officer Training Corps. It is a training program

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  )-funded program under the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) umbrella. It ... "rotation measures" for each millisecond pulsar (MSP) in the globular cluster ... value for each MSP in the cluster and then have fun comparing them and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for ... for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

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

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay ... intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor ... winners of the Hunt, he and his team created the challenges for this year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and ... , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  works the best for me is, "well, if I can't remember the event, then it ... schedules to tell you what my scheduling looks like for the upcoming semester. =p So these two days of class has been pretty intense. Well, so for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... got a request for my interview story. There was actually a problem with ... in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... registered within 3 minutes of reading that e-mail. Who was obnoxious for the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... school kid for his lunch money. Well, I couldn't stand for that, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... space. And Jones is blunt about the consequences. The quest for ... . That's why we're in the business." "Lowering the flame" For years, high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I ... a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of ... for in a small-town or rural area? When we talk about rural and small

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In As we gear up for the second STARS (Small-Town and Rural Students)@MIT Fly ... behind the scenes to open applications and plan for the Fall 2025 STARS ... 20 high school juniors from small and rural towns nationwide to MIT for

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) program.  For those of you that don’t know, GEL is ... worked on the project charter, and the other half we were [annotation note="for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... the T for all my cafe hops, so my location references are in relation to MBTA stations. If you’re looking for a cafe with delicious food… This is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025