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  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  will be pretty long! It'll be an explanation of the class, my experiences ... ourselves with Arduino and C++ by incorporating a basic state machine ... long. Lab 2 That Thursday, I was paired with a super smart kid by the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  graduate student), having never flown a drone before, took it to the beach to test it out. I’m not sure why Larry took the drone the beach, as opposed ... a raft to the beach, military assault style. We hiked around, ate

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  died a year later, a final disenchantment in a long, gradual descent. At ... long time. Both of them even think they haven’t met each other in real ... simply goes from one predetermined state to another. An NFA, in one sense

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... long talks with friends. I hadn't done anything for the last few days and ... .” “Why are you feeling guilty?” Well, that was a long story. At the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  version of 6.006 to tech professionals and university students in Addis ... Water was formed at Ethiopia’s Mekele University. It started when Matt ... university. They wanted to have a sort of base, similar to Mekele University

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like ... into long pants and close-toed shoes and head down to the basement of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge ... a very long written document as well as orally in front of a group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will ... Astronomy (with Anna Frebel, who studies the early universe, works on discovering the oldest stars in the universe, and is a funny and endearing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  , to shifting my computer screen by 1-2 degrees. I keep my camera on in ... daily routine, it takes me so long to actually finish things that I ... long to finish half of the assignments, and I constantly feel like I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... universe has reasserted itself. A particular small goose is fed fois gras for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... minority / from a rural state / an athlete / an artist / a traveling magician ... applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  product of a week-long Mechanical Engineering pre-orientation program), slept in a 3-foot long storage container at the Boston Museum, watched ... -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  people as having an identity other than this. During the long weekend two ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... ’ve experienced these for so long, and so often, that I can’t ignore it any more. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... whatever data we do release. If we released admit rate by state, it would be ... considered in a complex ecology of decisionmaking? To some degree, yes; that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  all three. Long story short, as is always the case at MIT, your ... that long. Then on Monday and Tuesday, I will pretend I was busy doing ... 'd been down this road many times before. Drifting into a state of half

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... Memorial Housing for long.) You'll find that my dorm's been making head ... of two nearly-identical, 300-foot-long buildings known as the West and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  it? There is no universal definition. So as it stands, enrollment ... is access, and the standards are specified by the state legislature. If ... university community facilitate that experience, but it all begins with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  focus on the aspects of MITese that are (in my opinion) universal across ... of MIT. Mystery Hunt (n.) - The (in)famous weekend-long mind ... Coursework 3.091 - Solid-State Chemistry ("three oh nine fun") 5.11x

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  . These teams have been hunting for a long time, and the three teams I ... history of any of these teams, other than they’ve been around for a long ... around for a long time include Death and Mayhem, Codex, Left Out and Luck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  . Other times I kept something on board for way too long and then wondered ... contrast, did a UROP in the same solid state physics lab for nearly his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014