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• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  to forget. It feels all the more easy in places like MIT, where ... hearkens to the etymology of the word amateur—someone who does something out ... shame in sharing your work. Leave the pursuit of excellence to those who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  . Before I take off on Saturday, though, I have to deal with what I think has to be the least glamorous and least enjoyable part of the overall ... than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  sent me. I faxed them over to MIT on the 11th itself, yet, my profile on ... expect the admissions decisions to be emailed or posted on the website ... the usual factors) to make sure that the student will be a good fit on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  except on the ground floor. So someone who lives on Conner 5 and wants to visit a friend on Burton 5 would have to go all the way downstairs, across ... before you were admitted? If so, please advice me on how to do that (and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  media, on giving laptop computers to the poorest children in the most ... @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen ... Turkle, on the positive and negative effects of technology on human

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  , except on Sundays, when the T runs 6-ish am to sometime shortly after ... Hall. We seem to be going the right way. Follow the stairs on your right to the inbound trains. On your right will be another neon sign, now

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . But in an attempt to eschew the "nerdy girl" stereotype for Devi, the show's creators center the plot development on her trying to get with the ... -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  building 3, on the first floor, room 08. Main campus is considered to be the ... on the south, Massachusetts Avenue (Mass Ave to the natives) on the ... 77 Mass Ave. It may be the summer, but we students have places to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  personally; (4) able to take on the challenges of grad school; (5) able to have ... accomplishments you have in the field. Ability "to take on the challenges of grad ... committee's image of you as someone with the abilities to "take on challenges

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  running our comparator on the same 2 numbers 40 log N times. For ALG to work ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total ... are limited to 8% of the class, not 10%. There's other weird stuff in ... The Tech published an article today that contains some significant

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  .009. I want to be back at MIT and swing on the rope swing in the East ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper functions for

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... lasercutter! The newest one on campus is across the hall, and it is one of three

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  On Friday afternoon, the students and staff of the senior capstone ... Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... course at MIT, and I need no further proof than to note that the class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  ; 137 words to waitlisted teams; and 459 words on required forms. The ... to fall too far down the blog rabbit hole). On their experiences ... the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... 's resident advisor.) He's actually doing some pretty cool work on the security ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  , so I finally have a chance to update you on what happened. The banquet ... decades) to scale up those inventions to have a tangible impact on the world ... from taking up an entire room to fit on a chip the size of your fingertip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  Wait wait! Stop! Hold the presses! I have one more thing to add to ... come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever ... : introducing... the 2011 CPW Scavenger Hunt!! You will have 4 days on the campus

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012