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  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... , Culture, & Gender in the U.S & Beyond: A Psychological Perspective

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a ... from everything, what with 2015 finally in the horizon, and delve a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 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…

  

  . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... now-me in the heart with a blast of nostalgia or inspiration that stings ... true. Other blog posts recanting the more mundane remind me that in many

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... my younger brother who lived in fraternities and independent living groups when I was in college but sororities such as the six whose members

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't always obvious. Other important factors in your college decisions process ... , match wasn't foremost in my mind. Or in my mind at all. In fact, it wasn ... at a rural but well-resourced public high school in New Hampshire. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... browning in the pantry is practically palpable, even upstairs. As pika

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... taking strolls around the park in my walker, my summer consisted of: Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal ... was actually seeing people in person that I've been seeing online ... a dorm has a ball pit, I need to stay in it, because it is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In ... assignment, most dorms have an In-House Rush where you choose a hall or entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that was not awkward, and everything worked out fine in the end. Every once

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal ... hacking stuff in highschool, notably capture the flag competitions where you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024