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  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  kids yet, but at some point, I will, and I don’t think I can get over ... weight be more reasonable? A duel perhaps? Can we just get several gigantic ... navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... with the robotics team. This made it much harder to disguise criticism of ... at MIT. If I felt so much joy in seeing these folks celebrate queerness

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , this weekend was as much about the two hundred puzzles as it's about the ... , which have a list of each of the teams. Not only can you read all the ... , and luge. And I can imagine each team that submitted their own board

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
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  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  or were just cool and awesome people, and in getting to know them and ... sometimes worry I get way too excited to see underclassmen compared to how ... much I would miss MIT as my home until the very last couple weeks before

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  :45am second alarm (actually wake up) 9:17am get out of bed 9:27am realize ... that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjorie ... ; Creeper picture of Toby (left). I miss my beagle Taffy (right) so much and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  learned about the domain over the semester. It's amazing how much you can ... about it. An amazing teacher can present the most boring material as the most fascinating thing but interesting content can only carry a class for

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

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on 8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... conversation. Or something like that." And then I get real sad, so I go back to ... Engineering Project Laboratory? Really, I didn't use them as much as Steph '07

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  every year so we can get prospective students interested in BC. Anyways ... prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... code in Python in a Jupyter Notebook (via Anaconda). My data and code can ... : Activity for One Year The beginning of my senior year was much more intense

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... to whatever it was you were originally doing, but can’t because you are

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 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.

  

  .424, information theory. The other seminar topics we get to choose from are real ... transiently experience several dozen proofs, getting closely acquainted with two ... , and my third topic was Hilbert’s third problem, which we’ll get to know

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
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  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  messy, and I think we all need all the help we can get. " Kris Guay ... orientation with a label (although neither one of us can get used to using “they ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  cramming as much into their heads as possible for midterms. At this time of ... Electronics Lab at MIT So that's the first difference: to get the light going ... can adjust the Duty Cycle, or what part of the time the square wave is

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
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  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  the idea (nobody really likes them that much, right?). No worries though ... ! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's not just the MIT node... I'm in Ohio and I'm getting the same ... million students here at MIT can voice their school pride.   We

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... . Good grades came easily, but my classes weren't much harder or more ... 't think I changed or grew much in that year, compared to my years at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  school, so I didn't study for it. I already know the material, right? I can ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  I get it. There have been posts about Splash before. There have, in ... , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... other part of me remembered how much better college is compared to high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  get in or will / will not be accepted because they are a woman / a ... so forth - can we conclude that you are prepared to handle the material at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  international students. Near the end, someone asked: "Can you give an example of ... an hour before German class; we can do whatever you'd like. Me: Let ... :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011