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• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... beings (alive or dead), so I opted for an interest in artificial ... engineering instead and went down that path for ~5 years Meanwhile, I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and ... started to improve, I'm remaining cautiously hopeful and optimistic for what ... a part of me that resented DPhiE for forcing me to move into the house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  and walk the Boston Marathon path. The planning for the walk started ... of proof-of-concept for both my planning methods and the distance ... distances and times for the trip. Eventually, Sunday hit, and it was time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days ... ="attachment_62937" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] strike for six![/caption] You ... lacks in those departments it more than makes up for in its gameplay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the class i'm a lab assistant for. it was more time than i expected to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... . Early Action decision day was on a Wednesday for us. We honestly can ... , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs types (though, he did stress that this was really just for fun). Curious ... few other tests besides.   Debunking Myers-Briggs My result for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... 't know the city, so we looked for the Space Needle in the horizon and just ... disappointed that we drove for many hours in the forests with no sight of any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th ... homestay, and additional expenses for food and travel in Madrid. The rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... made me feel very welcome. Now, I can’t believe I’ve only known them for ... M. '18, Megan P. '18, and Anika Y. '18 (not pictured) for making House

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... advertisement for one of my friends. He jokingly mentioned that his goal for the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  forever as usual and was due on Thursday--and studying for the only 6 ... a boarding Catholic high school—for my fiction humanities class. I went to bed around seven, slept for five hours, then headed to my writing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog ... than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... it for the first time, there was a certain way their eyes popped open

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... classroom. I LOVE arriving early, and seeing the number of kids waiting for ... want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help ... easy for me. I then coasted through Math class without really learning ... class. I started studying for 18.01 by going through every test, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with ... report for Stu & crew; I figured I'd blog mine! Wednesday, July 13 ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

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

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner ... much. They think it makes everything cuter. For example, kawaii-ne~ Um

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008