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• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date ... palindromic dates (in this convention) are not entirely rare, this will be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  . ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- Shameless CPW Plug #1: Meet The Bloggers Want to meet these guys in real life ... action" in response to the fact that certain groups are underrepresented in ... song (Mikey was a Log). This option is clearly superior to #'s 1-3. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  students, we do not expect that most students have sent in the Mid-Year Grade ... . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... done, so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, we'll be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in ... using an algorithm designed to maximize the number of people in their

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  to document, especially because I am lucky to have more-than-the ... the school year is over! Blog once a week. This is a crazy goal, but I ... while simultaneously strengthening it. I want to explore the feeling of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the ... . Challenges come in bursts and send an electrifying signal to the brain. "12 ... nights of no sleep. Everything is shockingly clear in those hours, yet the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... early evenings throughout the Infinite Corridor as I head to different

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind ... the material. I've just woken up from a nap, ran to the store, and am ... selection for this particular evening (I tend to listen to the same music

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the ... F/A-18s overhead to the percussive expression of a man in a pug mask ... skies apart for Seafair. The aeroastro in me is all kinds of happy

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  the Kinect (no color information!) and is able to identify parts of the ... the best differentiation between different body parts. In order to get ... , it is possible for the authors to estimate the location of the subject

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for the vast majority of applicants, most of whom were qualified to be here. To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... temp room, hearing voices around the corner. "Is there a frosh in there

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... relocated to 10am-6pm and careening in the direction of 'hand-wavy'. The day I ... optimism and self-confidence which is slowly reduced to dust over the course

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  is when I was able to shoot. I shot in the first air pistol round of ... pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... straight from the bus into the range, which is, unlike ours, housed in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  undergraduate and graduate students to become leaders in diverse career fields ... School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently is at the top of U.S. News and ... creating the best possible education, which is based on their innovative and
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  -acclaimed street photographer in the meantime. The first step to a Pulitzer is to set ... th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much ... about the Black Panthers, did work, went to 8.07, worked on 8.07 in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme ... . Luckily, I managed to jot down home of the highlights: How to sleep in ... .606: Introduction to Stagecraft. How awesome is that? Here's the course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  the weekend was, "How much of MIT Blogs is real? Why does it always look ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the world!), there will be an opportunity to relive CPW through the various

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  Parenthood. Content-wise, my work is close to the opposite of the general MIT ... in my room (napping is essential to student life, as 55% of MIT ... to Feminist Thought. The commute is approximately one minute long. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  myself to hate mit. "the flight's are too far from cali." "cambridge is ... still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... with the fact that i'm going to what i believe is the number one

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019