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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... the morning, whenever morning is. iCal, Google Calendar, or another ... calculate. LaTeX. A typesetting program that makes the documents you write

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  TeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and ... , the Walker Memorial Building. Pritchett writes: [Walker] as it is ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce ... /pharmacology of synaptic transmission) lecture. Professor Wurtman is happy with the class performance on last Thursday's midterm. The lecture is about the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my transfection mix. I use Excel, because my postdoc's calculator is sketchy ... bacteria. One of the ingredients is "extract of autolyzed yeast", which I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  episodes. Here are some pictures. The rest of the blog is me explaining how ... ’ve probably seen the show and know how it is. I wish I could call this a ... cook-off didn’t [annotation note="which is probably for the best, at

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  complete my distribution. The first assignment is called "Critter": the goal ... ?). The smog is believed to have been caused by the volcanic event, but has ... around the gas exchange membrane of the Pocket's central pit, allowing the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... is where the heart is and happily chose to switch from mechanical ... the most popular TV shows ever began, Friends. In 2004, at the end of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... calculated the center of mass to determine the length of the supports we needed ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... calculations, I've failed the class. And with my current MIT track record, I ... infinity Boy, the wheel is spinning me It's never ending, never ending Same

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
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  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full ... Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... of the 1973 application is the letter from the Director of Admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  time I realized, 30 people had already filled out the form. So, this is ... though there is some overlap. Content: New Experience is the category I ... number of times mentioned, which is the number in parentheses.   

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  of your time wading through the endless linkbait that is mitadmissions ... usually no.) This is not the story you were expecting to hear, was it? I ... information I left out of the story so far is what I actually do at my job. On

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  titled Excellent Sheep, has been mentioned a lot on the blogs, and is ... cube, so a 3U is 30 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm. People often say it's the size of a cereal box, which is not really true dimensionally, but the scale is

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game ... 2008 and in 2009. In fact, that 2009 post is from Paul B. '11, one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
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  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  charming, despite his obsession with the color [annotation note="whitney is ... and 100 (inclusive) that is 90% of the average. Participate here at ... ignore that the Earth is a sphere (or at least approximately one)."]the far

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
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  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  wrongly. Consequently, people, watch calculations pertaining weather! Coming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  stated that “Every Latin-American student at the Tech is just another link ... issue of The Tech. An excerpt from one of the obituaries is included below ... ; his was one of those characters whose memory is always the last to die

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  think this is mostly because the history people study just… doesn ... fascinates me is, say, what MacGregor was like fifty years ago, or the history ... (very long) post is organized by catalog year. Within each year, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021