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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the ... coffee, which is probably terrible coffee, but since I usually avoid coffee

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly ... been doing this since our freshman year. It’s a smart idea; the goal is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... 'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to ... midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we ... senior year slogan is “do all the things you might regret not doing later.” And that has been a lot of fun.   What is on your shirt?  My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... like “2 is smaller than 3” or “2 is smaller than 4”. What if your 2 ... comparator that says “X is smaller than Y” and is accurate only 80% of the time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  . And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in ... 't believe that trying to define what "ultimate recognition" is, under ANY ... disappointed. My robotics team is kicking butt now. They won the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Superficiality Christina asked, Is everyone at MIT ugly? I know Christina wasn't serious, because she goes to MIT and is one hot piece, but ... is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  last two weeks.  The most frustrating part of this experience is that ... digital maker. Well, that’s not true. The most frustrating part is that I ... ’m dealing with in Metaphor. Right? No. I was wrong. This is my fourth attempt

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  school that is known for them (however, I was at school 2 months ago and ... can still eat it, but I will fall asleep very quickly. That is not very ... get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day but it is still cold worked at a big place where people watch games on ... friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] a graphical representation[/caption] What I’ve noticed is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... impact remains when everything unessential is stripped away this mentality ... address the fundamental problem, which is that any mentality which views art

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... gap year which I just think is freaking awesome, who is on a quest to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: I am growing an ... 's a million fun things happening in the Kendall/MIT Open Space it is ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... materialize behind him, and then the commander turns around and realizes he is ... job is to pop as many of them as possible. you pop bloons by placing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  ’s advice is, but regardless, it begs the question - how many other glass ... was ever mine. for example, a rather common one is i will only say ... , climate change and covid and so on- and all i do is focus on my breathing or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is defined by necessity. MIT is hard. It is as challenging emotionally as it is academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c ... this is the post number i claim it was[/caption] why tau? Note: This ... needed to understand everything is calculus, but if you haven't taken that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021