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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  more, from my friends: Cockatrice, recommended by several people in ... . Awesome Window Manager, recommended by Alex ‘15. Alex says that other tiling ... 's computing environment, uses xmonad. Evernote, recommended by Fangfei ‘11

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program ... as a “listener.” You can play a fun game by going to the subject

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  my mind lately. (And by subject I mean aw ... schedule to include biology and neuroscience. By the end of this semester ... my talented friend Ben '11's camera, of which you can see more (and by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  are otherwise prohibited by my heavily restricted digital presence.  I ... loved me more than I ever deserved, and told my friends, who stuck by me ... ’re surrounded by people that know what is around the corner miles before they get

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... outside of Native Americans. I want to preface this all by the fact that I ... ). This in turn leads to things like casual use of the n word by non

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  ’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , recorded frame by frame comments in my video recording so that I could watch ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by ... Therefore for me, I leave MIT satisfied and comforted by having fallen so many

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  the past 4 days studying as much as I could, yet by the time I tallied ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... reflected in this. And right after I finished at 9:30 tonight, I was hit by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  inspired to write this by an MIT confessions post, where someone complained ... people in the movie who are "just friends" always end up married by the ... living group all semester” “Romantic”: By this I mean some emotional

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  complete by the summer. Sidequest 5: Pull a cool hack. Only Jack Florey will ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority ... Campus (it was love at first sight, and the EC community is by far the best

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  obligated by social norms to stay right where you are. I looked desperately ... suffer without their judgement. However, I was obligated by those pesky ... responded by moving the corner of my mouth slightly towards my nose. That

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  I didn’t run, but I walked along the same path by the river and sat ... fill the space made by distance from my family. Some days (the later days ... eaten in that house, recipe given by the mother and translated by the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned-calculus-by ... ? Got straight As? Weren’t intimidated by the apparently superior 6 ... started by blogger Danny B.D.!) that lets you lay out your class schedule

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  Student Luncheon happens every Reg Day. It’s organized by Laura Maxim of ... Center, but today it’s been co-opted by S3 and MIT Medical and other ... semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  just carry on and pretend like this never happened? Meet you outside by ... 95% grateful for and 5% deeply embarrassed by, and someday I may even ... them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... all do research! I know people who got UROPs by sticking around after ... this, but I would probably start here, or by getting in touch with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... by Professor Preetinder S. Virk. But I digress. As any good engineer ... beach, or he plays "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen and everyone knows all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  back a year. This blog post is about and largely by last year’s Random ... Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by ... graduates, at 3:11:50, transcribed by the MIT News Office here. President Reif

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  procedure, and that the good person makes a decision by trying to rationally ... earlier and the days got colder, my motivation drained, bit by bit, until at ... fields I want. Unfortunately, that semester was disrupted midway through by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021