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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  intelligence research. I hope we can become as strong a leader in identifying and ... above I've explained how MIT's student body has seen an uptick in ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless hospital gown thinking, "eh, I'll breathe again in an hour or so. Inhaling is ... : Class. CLASS. Where - what - HOW DID THAT JUST HAPPEN 11:47 AM: Hop in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving ... Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... with the justification of "Fuck it, why not? I can just drop it if I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  really loudly in my room. I can be introspective to the point of self ... too - because how can we not? - especially in situations where we might ... , and because I think those two go hand in hand anyway. I’ll largely put

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  , where I now work) because they're certain they can't afford it. Given how ... . I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. MIT alums often ... inspiring. I remember thinking: in 2004, the greatest technology school in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  same way, if I was in their shoes. How could we have solved this? How do ... each other in an environment like this? How can we build community? III ... I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  . All of this was fine and good, and I kind of enjoyed watching how MIT ... route Obama was going to take based on how clean the sidewalk was), but I ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... them still intact. Sorry for the “Admittedly” pun back there. I just can ... myself that I do, in fact, have free will. For example, on a whim, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to ... -ish form of art: yeah, I'd say any man who can get hackers to pull a hack ... what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  tea shops to choose from, with the best prices in town (although I still ... Faneuil Hall in the winter.    Boston Harbor I saw the ocean for the first ... Boston is a marvelous city! During the school year, I have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  to eat. I see Anderson in the kitchen as well. He talks about how he ... 't want to do it. I can't understand wanting to do puzzles in a vacuum. It ... fifty people I spent it with. Puzzlehunts, after all, are done in teams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ... covers topics in Calc I-III, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra and Differential

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of us. One of my favorite places in the world is the gold hill under the ... ’s favorite place to go when we need an escape, especially in the late evening

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch ... , there is nothing I can say here to make this fact easier to digest. But

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

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  by a Q&A session) at MIT, in 26-100 (I sit through biology lecture in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... the other two, and found out that the man lives in Italy (I think it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• 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 ... assigned to them by another member of Conner 2. I can't remember all of the ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

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

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  and down in excitement. I had a bunch of them and they were really good ... worst of the bad ideas I took part in. It was so bad that I wrote an ... someone had the bad idea to run the test in the East Campus courtyard, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019