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FAQ / Academics and research
Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?
subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you ... test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class ... , and you will never exhaust our curriculum of hard, interesting classes. -
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 ... to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing ... of proofs are impossible, but when conducted in the right setting with -
Blog / Challenges
zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going
this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo of ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical ... me. It is, of course, that same burnout which I felt just as I began my -
Blog / Admissions
Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters
moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My -
Blog / Uncategorized
Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn
all of this without ever leaving your room. What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... . I can tell you what I did: I learned a lot of math! And I didn't -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/
. Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an incredibly brilliant student at MIT who is capable of rattling ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Sweet summer song
common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of -
Blog / How to Human
We’re Only Getting Older
surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!
It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of days 7 and 8 rehearsing/performing our music, so half of this blog post -
Blog / Extracurriculars
excerpts
I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my ... has things from 2018 I still haven’t followed up on. Oops. So instead of -
Blog / MIT Life
four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces
Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don -
Blog / Academics & Research
In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything
the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that -
Blog / Academics & Research
Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon
Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and ... applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to -
Blog / Admissions
Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!
totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and then cheated, like an idiot! So of course he got caught, and I’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering -
Blog / Academics & Research
Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.
Ruth said: "Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text ... , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on -
Blog / Academics & Research
So many problem sets
of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has -
Blog / How to Human
infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet
with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... during school, though of course all the details have changed i still live with a large number of friends, though instead of a dorm with 18-to -
Blog / IAP
a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that
of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped my luggage in the past hour was enough embarrassment for all of 2025 -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you