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  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  /repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why ... that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic ... heebie jeebies with your art? Starting off faithful to the human likeness

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  and why they decided to create basically the best thing ever. The ... DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  . Building robots turned out to be harder than I had anticipated. I had built a ... the hell a cross correlation was supposed to do. The whole thing was ... was a Course 6 major from the start, fairly confident that I wanted to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  the opportunity to be snarky (PSETs will do that to you): "Why are you ... immediately after waking up. Simple tasks like adding the number 9 to 8:00 to ... : Anyway, I click on the e-mail and see this: Subject: To Blog About A Dream

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  nonrestrictive. If you’ll be able to complete all testing requirements by the ... that time, you may be admitted, denied, or deferred to Regular Action ... difference in the review process or criteria used for admission in EA (non
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  be, it's an issue we're willing to deal with to get the quality ... really it will be those other things and not the test scores that will be ... report? No. The scores will come to us in bulk from the College Board, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  informed the balance that we will not be able to admit them to the Class of ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... ,275 students who will have the chance to collectively climb the mountain that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  anything and I won’t be able to catch up. Not true. I am probably the best ... your own personality and voice, then that’s not the essay you want to ... list some of the fears you may have (which I had) about going to college

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... GPA even in Course 9, after turning down the opportunity to "earn

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  you some background on the [annotation note="To be clear, literally ... wouldn’t be in the cart for much longer, so he took the opportunity to show ... remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'd be willing to do an interview one day after class. If you're interested ... experiences with 8.012, I'm happy to report things seem to be going well. On the ... . Coming up with solutions to some of these problems is going to be the major

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  River. “We don’t need all the space we have in the Charles, so why not put ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  not my favorite. I am really looking forward to the electromagnetic ... will be all new material! In general, it is exciting to take 8.03 as well ... night, and it will be my first time doing anything even remotely close to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  Hello everybody! I'm still alive, I promise, just not at the computer. I will, however, be at the computer tonight from 8:00PM EST to 10:00PM EST to answer all of your questions about MIT in gory detail. What

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  -spring-damper system, et cetera, et cetera. I will not in fact have time to let these ... ’ll absorb the classes I do take more deeply. I think it will be elucidating ... justifications: that I can’t write consistently at MIT anyway so why not do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  the not-so-intact sweep needs to be replaced. This is done by taking out ... beautiful hundred year old brownstone needs to be maintained! The industrial ... bottom of the basement door and the ground. There used to be an intact door

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be ... Tulane University who will attend MIT this fall, said the pressure will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  "), touristy ("Have your parents take you to the North End"), or non-MIT/Boston-specific ("Go to a formal"). I've never understood the attraction of formals ... worth doing, but...it's just not that special. Which is why I've decided

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  . Hopefully there will be more good than bad, let's see, we’re curious ourselves ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  . Basically 2.001 teaches you the stuff you need to know to figure out that suspension bridges should be made out of concrete and not silly putty, which ... but not when it comes right after the else command?): Rick helped me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006