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  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  almost cried tears of joy. My new machine is a Lenovo Yoga 730 (the newest ... with Windows 10 as the operating system. Windows is pretty decent for web ... that you see in 80s movies, which is the primary and most powerful way

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  of background info: The MIT Concert Band is a student organization, as ... processed foods at the Harvard Fall Festival (not in any way related to ... literally, as this is what happened to the car wheels: Fortunately, a cheery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  major is not the same as a Government major—the former is a social science ... major, which is strongly recommended for the program. He told me not to ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  campus. The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events ... parents will probably not want answers to the same questions that students ... 's just not the way we remember it. I remember fondly my mother’s first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most important takeaway for any prefrosh reading this is to please not worry about ... talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... geek (like me), it's hard not to be fascinated by perfect numbers and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  needs. What is leadership? Some say that it’s being the president of a ... lack is so important. The most recent leadership initiative in Student ... ://ua.mit.edu/ Service is leadership. The Public Services Center When we think of student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  stay focused and not let work from this class pile up, because the work ... .122, which is game theory and takes up the second half of the semester. in 14.121 today, the professor said, "i'm sorry, i know consumer theory is the most

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you ... snow skiing, I admit) but not hockey. But that has all changed. The ... game too. One of the benefits of being at MIT is access to the MITAC

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... French soldier audience was not amused the first time he tried to put it on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  upperclassmen or the Admissions Office hear, for this is top-secret information ... . The fact of the matter is that CPW is an experience far beyond mere words, even beyond pictures. The only way to describe it...is to be there

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  option, however it is the one that I chose. Next time, I will CAD the ... the metal base was going well. I'd cut it in steel, which is stiffer ... embarrassing. Fortunately hot glue is forgiving, so I just ripped off the fairy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  it (not like a science thesis, this is 100-200 pages of individual ... hacks?) What is your preferred way to the get the tour: on your smartphone ... .? What do you think of the concept of the business? What specifically is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  exhausted and not ready to do it all again in the morning, but such is the ... schedule so...not bad, I guess?   The Build-Up [Nisha] I got elected ... has been a blur). Our job is to basically coordinate all of the events

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  about everyone, the change is sudden and doesn’t even necessarily hit you ... talk about the daily routine after my work is done for the night. It was ... not have to work while they were here for the weekend! As of last week

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just ... enjoy the culture? Is MIT somewhere you can see yourself being at for the next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  don’t have any carry-ons, the guard who is supposed to simply check to ... for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been ... National Mall, plus a number of adjacent streets. The side effect is that a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  changes between high school and college is just the amount of freedom you have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not ... to do. However, it is not the kind of thing that I enjoy for weeks at a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  may not have enjoyed the experience as much as I would have liked to ... economics extremely difficult. I could not for the life of me wrap my head ... found the class so difficult - 8.02 is very standardized, and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  hair is definitely not used to the bay area climate. We left dry, mid-90s ... the “not-really-an-ocean-view Ocean View Trail,” crossed a bridge, and ... the trail behind my family says, “Is that a brass rat?” We all slowly

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010