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• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  financial aid deadline is quickly approaching. Be sure to have all of your documents to the financial aid office by February 15. I haven't forgotten ... get us your Mid-Year Grade Report as soon as possible after the grades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  do? From the website: Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the ... very, very close, really limited only by the technologies of optical ... fills in the image where text is removed (think Photoshop's Content Aware

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  , I get nothing.  tick Everyone here is brilliant. How the fuck did I get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... . MIT is not the academic utopia I imagined it to be.']MIT classes take so

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , approved my classes, and (essentially) said Give it your best. At the end of ... myself. I just… decided to accept that the best learning happens when you ... that best supported my mental health, and gave me the opportunity to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  being able to shut the door and get a good night of sleep. (Or, point in fact, being able to shut the door, turn up your silliest music, and dance ... who is not all sweetness and light. Whoa, okay, I need to get myself to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  towards Israel, it is a great way to connect people with other Jews and the ... Old City in Jerusalem is exactly the type of place I love—easy to get ... great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  is, to the best of my knowledge, particularly strong in ... was that the variable used to represent the third dimension is z ... on using tools like fMRI to find out information about the way people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  next to it, but actually turned out to be all the flipping way across ... duty to watch one hour of television a week and it's probably the best ... every spare moment in that time period looking over my notes. By the way

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  the one to burst your bubble, I really do. But PIRATE Shanties? Not real. You’ve been lied to by the [annotation note="A shocking amount of the ... [/annotation] . This is where the definition of what a chantey is started to flake out

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  by a friend. How did you come up with the name for your blog? This is ... shat by a raven. It is the body of a fallen father, whose bones are ... some point!), so I'll kill a little time by answering them. What's the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  sitting at the table over there? Come on, get on it. Say hi to him." Me 1 ... waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that ... refreshing drink as it is like getting punched in the jaw with a wet and icy

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  as ‘friend-of-the-court’ —  is filed by entities not themselves parties ... —  and only for the reason —  that it is "narrowly tailored...to further a ... contextualized assessment of each applicant has proven to be the most effective way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  she came to visit me a few weeks ago. This might be the best way ... I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or ... the waffles to eat. One wonderful thing about slow cookers is that meat

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... around 7:30, RingComm stood up and it was time to get the ball rolling ... . The next step is actually ordering the ring--and to do that, I've got to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  . To come home with stories behind me. I also, by the way, have a ... soft. But softness is good. It can cushion the diamonds you’re forming ... the edits. Today I was… happy? So happy, at times, but in a way that is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  . MIT is likely not the best place to be if you know that writing is your ... would have no way to get back to the ‘right way” of doing things (getting ... objectively better than the other, but you can’t manage to feel that way: your

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  revolution. By the way, did I mention who else was in the darkroom? A blogger alum! Here is the (in?)famous rfong, looking very nonplussed by these ... time - adieu! (adieu is the hipster way of saying goodbye)

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  the time to do these hacks. I mean, considering someone is awake at all ... . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... . =) But I'll do my best to answer all of your questions and direct curious

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005