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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  -sided die, the probability of getting a number smaller than 3 is 2/6. Now ... -number comparator: the simple ability to say things like “2 is smaller than ... into the details, I'll mention the intuition, which is pretty simple

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

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  the set compared to "permies" and the exec board. this is something that ... , which is the only one I dance in in our first set. I'm in all of our ... website that features dope choreographers from all over the world

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  how "likely" it is that someone not admitted in the freshman process ... register by the deadline and then try to register late. Also, it is true that ... form is enough." Your friend must register as a host at the MIT Community

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  I want in the future. Not that I’m sure what that is. I like to learn ... we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -purpose computer is the CPU – a device responsible for fetching and executing program ... . The von Neumann architecture is great because it’s super flexible and ... matrix multiplication (which is used heavily in machine learning). On the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  , just speckled with little bits of something, And not the other way ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  the author, which is often not as forthcoming as the first. • Proof by ... classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... entire textbook is online! The instructor in the OCW lecture videos is the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... whatever this is (a blog post? A stream of consciousness diary entry? The ... Phone note I'm typing into, I now see that, at this point, the best option is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  designed to kindle the creativity again, and it is so liberating. ... barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... , counting down seconds until the next class, and over and over again. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... are the most occupied: you can see that 2-4 pm is the most common time ... tick mark is 25 cents, and at the end of the year, we're going to have an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... facetious (which is one my favorite words ever, by the way). But really, it ... finish a p-set while also taking notes is generally a bad idea. That's not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where the heart is." Was home the physical space, or was it the friends that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  here, but um...that'd just be weird. Because the rest of this entry is SO ... the Internet. Too much. Seriously...that kid is just weird sometimes. He ... truly is. You have no idea what you're missing out on.) Anyway, after the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  year getting the ice, and I am not even ashamed—it is that delicious. If ... everyone is so happy to live also. Next up was soundcheck for the CPW ... Admissions website color scheme (but for the purposes of the Welcome, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  , sure, why not? MIT's computer science building is the Stata Center ... here in MIT, but probably not as big as it is in CMU, based on the ... the cool things about helping run HMMT is the staff exchanges. My first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  ." Instead, I hear "Yeah this is the best you're gonna get. It's not even a ... doesn't pique my interest within the first couple chapters, that book is ... place. A solution I've found, though, is documenting the process, though

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  getting in) is not the defining moment of your life. You're only 18 years ... on the Financial Aid website, and one of the most impressive is this ... student body AND THEIR PARENTS that I was the only one not accepted." I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  . HEARING GLIMMERS OF NEWS EVERY NOW AND THEN OVER THE YEARS, BUT NOT LETTING ... and thoughts) to the most external (the stage). But it’s not just a ... ']Broadway,[/annotation] aside from this blog, maybe this video is it. THE MIT SHOW TUNES SCENE

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  units above - isn't really the best idea. (Neither is doing 60 units ... .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn ... , my on-the-record answer is "they just don't.") I'll even give you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007