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  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... be "Lots of Taylor series and some MATLAB code that Adam does not understand." I'd give this pset a 2 out of 5 on the "assume the fetal position

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends ... the wired brain of some android. So, of course, I did what any MIT ... together the guts of a robot, anticipating the moment when a dozen blinking

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as in the "before times," of course. We wear masks in class, and because of the restriction on serving open food at club events, I've eaten an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  inventions left and right. The builder community at MIT is one of the strongest ... unable to speak as he staggered into the trainer's room. This problem of ... by donors from the Kickstarter. Ben and Seth are also alumni of my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  . Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of the four I picked all have the same schedule. This kind of sucked, and opened up the floodgates of my hatred for those stupid HASS requirements

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  myself and say it's the latter – despite the good intentions of freshman ... , 2019. Google tells me the length of my hiatus: [annotation note="No."]Was the duration of my hiatus intentional?[/annotation] The world may never

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  -class faculty, plethora of student groups, proximity to the cultural center of ... thing about MIT is that about 90% of the student body really has no idea ... school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  everywhere, tread was the most important factor in choosing a good pair of ... It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things ... ’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual ... system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have worked their way into the lexicon of MIT slang. So, when someone asks me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time ... seeding cells and learning to increase throughput with the use of all kinds ... excited to wake up and make my way to work. The routine has it's own kind of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of ... simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  the impossible, with the help of numerous people including Erin K. '16 ... restart the making of) a women of the east side calendar, a calendar that dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  's said by the professor, line after line of some derivation of some mind-bending property of spacetime, and try to catch at least some sense of what the general idea of the lesson is. The psets take long hours of sitting at the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  we chopped a good portion of the population even though they definitely ... and just a whole slew of other things. One of the pros of being a ... , that there was no "typical" day in the world of PMs and so if you are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post ... the end of it. I’d spent the last two weeks either rehearsing for six ... ) homework. You know, being a real person and that sort of thing. But as the

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  content he’s written, and maybe ten percent of what he writes is good. The ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... 'm fully prepared for the prospect of college. Sure, I'm familiar with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about ... spent about 3000 hours in the lab over the course of three summers, three ... . He still has to take the GRE and write a statement of purpose and all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  received questions from adMITs about whether the terms of their admissions ... admission will not be rescinded on the basis of cancelling an AP exam you had ... wrote: Of course, we know that the cancellation of these exams also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an ... to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the class of 2010 who are straggling onto campus over the next few days, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  is good. It deserves fuel. It does not deserve the extremes of poor ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019