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• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  responded that it was “good.”  That turned out to be an unsatisfactory ... with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10 ... ,  matter of factly responding, “I use the -1 to 1 scale.” You guessed it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget cuts, it's been canceled this year. http://iap.mit.edu/ [please note

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self ... reaction. Source It would be a pain to manually draw recurring shapes over

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my ... might simply chalk it up to MIT being awesome (which it is), but they ... .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  We’re Bringing Snowflakes Back It's finally winter.

  

  IT FINALLY SNOWED!!! Pictures etc coming soon to a blog near you. 3:27 PM - The snow has ceased. There is little to no evidence of the little snowstorm that could. BUMMER.

  • by Bryan
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... . Sunburns suck, sand doesn't do it for me, and the heat is just tougher for me to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  : So all in all, it was a successful and spontaneous adventure to the ... . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours ... adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I ... at writing something, and the deadline is so close I can feel its

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it ... person needs to own this). we've played Fakin' It, Quiplash, Trivia Murder ... apps to use Codecademy Pro - Codecademy is offering students free

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  Australia, from England to Mexico and got to hear what it is that everyone ... it was Connie and Shanasia, and if anyone is ever wondering what the illuminati thing is about for the class of 2019, it all started with Shanasia

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  't very, very quick (because it is), but I've definitely found that it's way ... something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students. Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to ... because we were bored." Want to try it yourself? Burton-Conner Tetris

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is ... With 5 days until the May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making ... you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  for the moment, it was not that fun to clean up. OK...begin the real ... teams all raced (note remember to post results).   Now crew is a ... crew, and they really enjoy it. It's a good way to avoid the Freshman 15

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  -10 page (it ended up being 8 pages) paper due in 17.405, which is Politics ... theory than applied math. Well, it is number theory. But it's useful in creating codes, which is why we're learning about it. A lot of 18.310 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  from the city center. It's about 45 minutes to walk there. It is an ... past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it ... that they were talking to a room full of MIT students. As it turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  forgetting what day it is eating because you want to keep your ... anything about a song, especially after listening to it multiple times in a passive, detached manner the point after which it is too late to ask for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009