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  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... forms, it's a very subtle misattribution of traits based on the ontologies ... being in the 750-800 range doesn't have much impact on your chance of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
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  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beginning of the semester, I was lucky enough to work on an independent ... . I was lucky to have received an immense amount of support early on ... with MIT’s fast pace. They are some of the strongest human beings I know

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , sweet-smelling clothes out of the dryer. It was mindblowing. Fast forward ... chunk of which was liquid nitrogen ice-cream. I jumped on a large bouncy house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  totally lost on me, until I read this book, and began getting an idea of ... down the stages of his illness and speculating on what triggered his ... ’s theories on the vanity of wealth, and the relevance of the influence of older

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... features of yourself mirrored in relatives, many of the alumni I met just ... exchange of ideas and excitement about Ethiopian-Eritrean culture on MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  halloween down the infinite

  

  still on time in pacific standard time. but also i girlbossed a little too ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is STUPID and BAD AT TIME MANAGEMENT, and no one comment on when this blog was

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  -end. Front-end focuses on the parts of the website that you see, and back ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this ... and only focus on one of them, I can’t. It’s too painful. Not only that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nine, one of my high school teachers took a couple of us on an out-of ... field was grass instead of an expanse of sand that only turned green on ... . These were the things accomplished on the second day of Beginner Swimming

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it ... Burton-Conner: potted plants on windowsills and a Dalek at the end of the ... again across the lawn. On the other side of the field, chains of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... formal, aka "Floormal", on the last day of classes, for which we all became ... Troupe's fall dance show, "Against the Music", which featured a variety of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  on by the administration, the Department of Student Life, and the ... ... REX/Orientation and CPW, on the face of it, seem very similar. They ... describe it!) Here you are, on the precipice of adulthood, in a truly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
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  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of McCormick Hall: the first women's dormitory at MIT. Fast forward to 2023: MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to take on their projects and jumpstart the proud tradition of MIT hacking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the ... computer not suffer on my behalf. Here are some things you should buy for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
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  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects ... timelapse video of the sunset, thoughts on being in a creative slump, an ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don ... on Instagram. The magician; blowing a witch’s ball out of glass. Using ... using lightboard videos. 8.01 and 8.02 are shown on the pillars of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  ’t really exist. Where I was standing, a picture of a studfinder rests on the ... familiar odor. You blink. You’re lying on the floor of a dimly-lit machine ... anyone who was on the committee. The announcement comes from a division of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is ... week ago, I wrote a note on the front cover of my current notebook ... This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  " which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the ... reproduce by replicating themselves on the inner lining of their pits and then

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020