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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like overall. Table of Contents How I Chose Course 6-9 Before MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  various artistic/technical aspects of animation, and how we have been able ... up out of nowhere, OpenMind::OpenArt, which we describe in more detail in the first part of this series, that allowed us to spend our freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... ....chances are that you're bored out of your mind. you probably miss your friends a ... amounts of time just so you have to find fewer things to occupy yourself

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates ... academia. Some are even professors! And, as of this term, one of them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my first day of web.lab, i received an email letting me know that i had been ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard ... , because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well ... screenshot of hell[/caption] [caption id="attachment_50017" align

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or ... !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  it happened again. after finishing my second round of midterm exams, i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and ... personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... of really cool things, such as [annotation note="although i found out ... of things to learn for a while and i'm glad that i finally got around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is ... canopy of grey and I had woken up feeling this odd sense of emptiness. I ... school hallway accosted me with a new bundle of numbers. It was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  senior events that are planned for the class of 2019. My main concerns ... first time, I am spending a lot of my free time UROPing, and now I am ... last few months for a majority of my best friends has been something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of ... way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that my Sundays have been renamed “Day of 6.009 Office Hours.” 6

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I ... ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... process of finding something that interested me was the furthest thing from

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... first batch in summer 2017. Each of them will get hands-on mentoring as ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my ... of our brothers designed all the circuits from the ground up, and got

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017