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• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Thanks to Petey, whose ideas I am stealing to write this post. Thanks to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT Facilities, the people who keep MIT running. In 2014, Walter Isaacson

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  absurd amount of people using it (as Vincent H. '23 can attest to), I’m on

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research organization. i got involved with 0xparc because it’s…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  tw: mentions of substance abuse, various diseases, death i have been much more productive over the past few weeks than i usually am. of course there are many reasons for…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to think the hardest part is initiation. as…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  i hate when people ghost me, especially over text or email. not when it happens once or twice, or when they have good reasons for doing it, like if they’re…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  roadtrip to canada planned, but then coronavirus happened :( Vincent by Don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  every day to make myself walk faster Los Ageless by St. Vincent - i had a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Right before an exam at MIT, I usually spend ten minutes walking down Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of times, it’s…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory, accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this workaround.…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  Warning: Before reading this post, be aware that it contains extremely strong language. It was the only way I could write it honestly, the only way I could bring words…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project-based classes (among others), whose projects span…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very very old. They will spend the next several days learning about MIT, departments, resources and culture. It turns…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

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  The following takes place between 4PM and 5PM in the hemispheres of a cranky blogger.   ! =[w ‘63- ;355[4t[rs 5/][ t0[ /ss[rt934 t0/t t0[ t[;049;/6 s9][ 3= })T w/s4’t…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  My high school academic life was by no means a cruise through pleasant waters. It had its several current peaks and rocky outbursts, challenges I found myself learning to deal…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  information) Concourse "is a small learning community that offers an innovative ... traditional first-year curriculum." The GIRs that are offered in Concourse meet ... offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements. Terrascope is a bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012