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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  E capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... Wallace stood in a gigantic tree. We also built products. The first month ... -to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also an explicit reminder in the motion that “[60 units] is an upper limit ... Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP) in the 2020–2021 school year

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  evolutions, but in the moment I mostly don't think about this stuff consciously. I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters. MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  “Going up in flames” “Trial by fire” “Burning out” “Burn it all ... considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... a lab in CSAIL. I could say a million great things about my mentors

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... lot lately (all quotes taken from the top posts in /r/2meirl4meirl)

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... team and I met at 8:30 AM in this cool lab space called Beaver Works. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy ... amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... is very self-selecting in that regard. It’s who you are that really

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  crawled closer and closer. I had been sitting in my little call station ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that ... ,” he said. I may have actually leaned back in my chair. “What do you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was ... visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... problem sets no doubt carefully engineered in some underground pain

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... .  In those situations, a new interpretation, spawned either by creative ... be the creators and innovators of tomorrow engage in pursuits today

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect ... themselves in fortuitous situations will often ask the question and add their

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  articles ourselves. but in between the late night pranks and the casually ... . kids who do research in government labs and kids that expect themselves ... that build roller coasters in their backyard and computers in their spare

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect ... there in 4 hours. There's no excuse. I made so many of these trips these last four years <333 11. Take a class during IAP - yup, in Spain too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  it in JavaScript. Well, that ended up changing. Over the past two years, I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... the past two years, in order of when they happened. Of course, these are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  MIT homepage, in three or four different blog entries, all over the news ... , pressure washing everything in sight, replacing windows, emptying stores of ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... given study space: other factors that they wrote in include: enough ... this in mind, let's dive into my definitely not comprehensive list of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... ever entered most of the dorms on dorm row ten times in TOTAL ... how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... ~"]prefrosh[/annotation] are moving in! It started on Friday, when the athletes arrived. Today ... !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019