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• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  optimization and low-level programming languages during my master’s degree, which ... went from being a broke twenty-two-year-old with no college degree to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  MIT: People Are Good. To some degree, this idea has been reduced to a ... 's true that you apply for the MIT degree and stay for the people. Lean

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  , and single-digit-with-windchill-in-the-negative-twenties to 46-degrees-and-kinda-sunny weather shifts (throwback to my first Boston winter when I though 26 degrees

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  makes the difference between me getting my degree here as opposed to from ... process get them to learn about me (action and reaction). My degree would

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  left my town that was 80 degrees with 100% humidity in Florida, and I ... when you have to get off in Florida 80-degree weather and will sweat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for the 2017 US Figure Skating Jump On It! Camp. It was 93 degrees when I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  conform to the average pari-sneeze*** head tilt angle of 35.74 degrees, I ... .” Every sneeze is different. Degree of head or body tilt (before and during

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  the weather to be over 50 degrees. It's a simmering 70 degrees here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014