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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... the class. (I didn't take it for credit. I took it for fun. In ... started. There's also a good recipe in there for brownies you can sneak into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half ... coming in with the knowledge that they'd stay in ec for a year before ... issues. there was other information in the email, but before i could even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It ... the list, unless I took a class in it and decided that it wasn't for me ... , particularly by addressing issues in cognitive science, but that I loved physics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in ... from a similar concept called computer timesharing back in the 60's, although that looked at solved a different computing problem.   In the 1960's

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  front sight, for a few moments, before lowering the pistol in a controlled ... meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  out in Alameda, CA, I worked for and with some of the smartest people I ... one of my Howtoons published all in the same issue)! As July '07 was ... parents and families, so we joined in for more "Chaiiiiiiiiii

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  .08J/9.48J Philosophical Issues in Brain Science; HASS-H, CI-H  | E. J ... out where their interests lie. Many MIT students are interested in SHASS ... requirement or disciplinary focus. The list for fall 2017 includes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  with a lot of family issues, i was living alone for the first time, and i ... wanted. for him, the gap year would only be different in that there'd be no ... francisco this summer for my internship, i stayed entirely in mit. during the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... , with the following caveat: for each single comparison made in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class ... to college, but pursuing a Ph.D. was a whole other issue. I grew up in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I ... , then we also have to undergo some training in exchange for the free food ... Lots of students make money during term by working in their UROPs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  placed the buttons in a way that was most comfortable for me to hold. Only ... cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6 ... -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard ... on a personal blog, but also for the admissions blogs in the hopes that ... myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  excited in his life. Second only to when he showed me his app for planning ... freshener they use for the odd-numbered buildings in Main Group. [caption id ... trapped the minotaur in Stata, it’d take at least six months for Facilities

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  +1 for MIT MIT scores again!

  

  I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score!

  • by Bryan
  • August 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  or blatantly creates new ones. For example, something we discussed in ... in this scene!” scene (think of the “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite” scene ... devotion shows in this...? For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  pretty well. I collapsed in bed at midnight (super early for me) completely ... Thrones in preparation for the season premiere. To finish off this post ... though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of ... ”) system where you'd get a 5.0 instead of a 4.0 for an A in an AP class. At ... home stands exactly as it did in 2005. Still, in Houston, I long for New

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008