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• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  .03 (Ordinary Differential Equations): A bad grade on one of the midterms ... around the concepts, and I struggled to come out of the class with an A. On ... massive amounts of studying yield minimal return in terms of performance on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on vacation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  summer. But more on all of that to come, I promise! This past semester, I ... Boston to meet us on campus. The rest of the semester, we continued to have ... centered around developing legislation on one of these privacy areas. My

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in ... something.) To celebrate Ben's continued ownership of all ten digits on his ... “I PL” and someone on the other side of the room with “EDGE!!!” One

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  a 500-something on one of the sections. And he seemed to be doing fine ... few people on my hall were members of FIRST, especially Course 2 majors ... everyone else, Head of the Charles is a huge annual regatta held on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  't do too badly. One of the features that immediately caught my eye was ... mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of ... [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  hosting a Fast-a-thon on the 27th. The event is not religiously affiliated ... Hi, I'm Karen and like most other freshmen, I'm still working on my ... get started on here. Unlike almost everyone else here, I don't have an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  spending instead of just spending willy-nilly on anything that looks shiny ... , some eat on campus for all their meals, and lots of people do everything ... . Not too long ago, some friends of mine over on Conner-2 went through

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  interesting lecture/discussion. The featured speaker will be Prince Turki Al ... moderated by MIT Professor of Chemistry John Deutch. The talk is hosted by the ... served as director general of Saudi Arabia's main foreign intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  & Erin stopped by and we stalked people using the satellite feature of ... most of my time attending events and meeting prefrosh. Started with the ... you left in our office, informing us of this, has made its way to, um

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high ... representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ) controlling the door. If both of them push on the door, then it stays shut; but ... One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  the basics of cybersecurity, and losing out on millions of dollars by ... , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Continuous process design. Right now we're working on a computer simulation of ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto ... of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us ... rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  . on some days, Flora seemed normal, which made the thought of what was ... image of her in my brain. we laid her on her side, and if it weren't for ... I was too young to have any conception of what death is. more so, most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  to wander down to the Porter Room on Sunday morning and grab some of ... note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... bake us goodies and check up on us to make sure that we're being

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  --but never surrender, on paint of death. For our fashion-forward frosh: never ... better in jello"? Now's your chance to prove yourself on the field of ... [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host ... leapt out of bed and answered the door. Figure out the damage. On the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT ... huge contingent of MIT students tutor, both here on campus (for our ... . We teach classes on topics of our choice to middle and high school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011