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  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don ... easily with, "Don't worry! I can always help and I'm sure you're not bad at ... , but you can find them all here: Weather I've written about this design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  Sometimes I went to recruiting events just to remember why I avoided ... Pods. I wondered at this approximation of Maslow’s. Who needed self-actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really like this analogy, because I feel like it also mirrors the way

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of my math major. (The second one, which I’m taking this semester, is 18 ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  [annotation note="oof again I can't really specify what this was because of the ... can healthily manage in a semester, but I felt so fulfilled doing ... describe MIT as “drinking from the firehose.” So I guess the water and fire

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... these opportunities, there are so many things that can limit the use of tools that people can use to explore new things or study different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... came out, I was sitting in the McCormick lobby, with our Head of House

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my birthday. I'm lame, I know. The firehose stops for no aging ritual, though

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... similarly barely-open-up-able door. "I should've re-taken the SAT like Sam ... feels awful. Instead, tell yourself: "In my circumstances, I tried my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  reminds me of something David Foster Wallace wrote, which I can’t for the ... ’m around enough that I can actually get to know everyone, which I’ve really ... I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can ... sprinter down the hallway, and can probably spot a fly a building away. He ... stinkiest little cat on hall and we love him. Anyways, one time, when I found

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, which means that I'm going to have my pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back ... This isn’t really a “last blog post,” since I’m sure that every now and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  , and I’d really like to see it get picked up again. Maybe you can even ... , and I can believe that. —EP '19 running a marathon, but it's 100 ... firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  to tell you all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though ... . Looking back, I can relate to so many of those stories, and I'm sure many of ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  fact, I feel confident because I am alive—the fact that I can see colors ... willing to make time to listen, and to support them as much as I can. Since ... are going through a difficult time when I take study breaks, can make a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means ... here), and generally what my life's like (so that you can, I don't know ... still can't wait for next Monday when I turn this lump of three

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009