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  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  plan, at the start of my junior year, I  scheduled 6.0002 for senior fall ... At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are on display at the MIT Museum. His machines are incredible feats of ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my ... ="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and ... of bloggers. This year,[annotation note="nice"]69[/annotation] people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  videos, compiled from the great people at MIT TechTV and (of course) You ... For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a video recap of much that occurred! I hope this is helpful =) And for those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit ... colleges in terms of waitlist size, usually keeping one of the proportionally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of the sort that I'm an expert on the issue by any stretch of the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  common than just their looks. They're also graduating at the top of their ... be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Community School of Naples' Field ... Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs. If you are at ISEF ... seeing a future Hall of Famer play at your local minor league affiliate ... mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  , but at least like in real war, there will be a period of peace ... instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Today, (April 4, 2023), marks the public launch of the STARS (Small Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  of what exists. The genius rejects those constraints to stare deeply at ... 2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT ... know to join the team, too, at least for the summer. The company is ... of use. Click here or on their logo below to see the demo... I thought

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  [annotation note="Being at the eastern edge of the timezone really sucks. Today, the ... us toasty. And at the appointed time of 5.26 pm, aka we planned to eat ... Thanksgiving at MIT has always been just a paltry two days off

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  ’ve been marinating this post all semester, so it’s always sort of been at ... of your speed at any given time during the run. If you plotted every ... check the date written at the top of the page and thought it was due the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied ... -intensive” class), and at least two additional math classes of your choosing. Here ... displacement of a cantilever beam at rest with only the force of gravity acting

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  lifetime of 19 years. In honor of the passing of 1000 days, I looked at the ... playlist of all of them is here, for you to shuffle at your own risk: https ... also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021