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  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a ... form teams of 2-4 students and go to work designing (mostly with

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  requisite spoons at the end of the day to force myself to go to sleep. If I ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem ... -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the ... , a sort of climax emerged. I was on the path to being part of Nigeria ... taste of how much time my classes demanded. I could expect to expend

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  didn’t need to find a GPU to run it, because Google Colab makes it easy to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2-simple that makes it really easy to use it. So most of the actual work was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio ... architecture studios I’ve taken has had its own share of criticisms, to which my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... system and advancement of teams to the round of 16... how France are almost ... tickets to Berlin for the weekend of the Finale. So, I realized that I hadn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did ... windshield with the force of a really hard kidney bean*, kicked up by the ... , there wasn’t much I could do now. Things were starting to spiral out of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... homeland of the Crow Nation, and is 95% Native American to this day. It is ... ). It was a lot of fun. The dynamics of presenting to a huge crowd are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING ... ;skip_registered_account_check=true In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing ... on the submission website. "Affirmations" has been a running joke

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  mass transfer problem and then go on to the rest of physics. No DDR or ... with friends, not just in the sorority (I really should go to more of ... friend almost flew to the other side of that train while holding that

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  then wind yourself through a bit of awkward hallway to get to the library ... the way to the east of campus (not as far as it would be if I lived on ... intellectually stimulating books during the semester, I want to dedicate some of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I ... before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is ... that took you forever to get right. Some of you might decide that you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of ... Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... reference during one of my classes, to thunderous applause. - My first class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group ... , these students put in an immense amount of work and were able to overcome their circumstances. However, what I never seemed to hear of was students

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... next day. I like the look of muscle, when I’m able to build it. I ... lot of stepping on and off of chairs. I didn’t really know how to set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart ... shows that MIT is a series of nearly back-to-back all-nighters, except ... me to hasten and complete their worlds. Except that each snippet of a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I ... Twitch’s wellness fund to expense all of my gear. I learned how to ... social battery seemed to always be on 0%; in the absence of tasks to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025