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The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals
The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the last four whole… -
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Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google
Upon opening my closet this morning – brightly lit with glorious sunshine streaming through the frosted window – I was greeted with a beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar… -
Blog / Community Projects
Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!
I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of life. In other words, the more catered Chipotle, rush burgers, or local pizza consumed, the higher one’s overall… -
Blog / Study Abroad
Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process
Disclaimer: This blog post is fairly specific to Computer Scientists, other majors have drastically different course structures. One thing most of them have in common though are the scale and… -
Blog / Study Abroad
The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors
One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that instead of having recitations they have supervisions . A supervision consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is… -
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Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions
no fault of your own, your school forms (e.g. teacher recommendations -
Blog / Admissions
Applying Regular Action – Q&A
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Blog / Academics & Research
The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.
Eric G. '14, who's been a good friend and pset buddy of mine for a long -
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Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…
[by Ken Haggerty '11] Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera has stunning visuals and technology, but it is Prof. Machover's haunting melodies that send a chill up your nerves. © Nicholas Wiltsie G (MIT -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm
that day (e.g.: icy roads, low visibility, having to wade through several -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.
own, your school forms (e.g. teacher recommendations, secondary school -
Blog / Athletics
Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa
Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I found myself, along with 15 groggy teammates and five coaches, at Logan airport, awaiting the plane… -
Blog / Academics & Research
In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.
Snively would call this the bloggers’ freebie post. I would disagree, having never taken advantage of the “hey kids, look at my schedule!” post before. I’d say the freebie post… -
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Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!
owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to -
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IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class
of the Show on G4 tomorrow, they're doing a feature on Mystery Hunt -
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So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.
. Wisdom, G. J. Sussman 18.700 Linear Algebra ______ Undergrad (Fall -
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Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…
An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of the last five days, with exaggeration inserted only when absolutely, absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM – I wake up. Come… -
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Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.
First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written way back in early September (yeah, remember that?) Imagine you’re working on your first 18.02 pset. Okay,…