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  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  thought about how the ability works beneath the hood. I mean, it’s just ... , let’s talk about how the game handles rotations… or rather, how I ... Maria,” I messaged her, “you know how with ultra hand you can…” A few

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... usually silly. LOLCODE LOLCODE is presumably what would happen if you let ... can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries ... things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i worked all through spring break, including weekends -- i think from monday

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  School! The very first session I went to was "How to tell someone ... went to Flirting 101, because I could. I mean, how can you not? All of ... jazzed about CPW!!! back to questions, how did u choose ur dorm? i read the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  everyone else would eat potato chips and brownies, I would cite her "fact ... , so anyway, Sam thought he would be super cool. Wishful thinking? I ... : Actually, I would even wait 3. :: Sam bangs head against the wall :: HAHA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  the MIT Museum specifically to buy nerdy earrings (I recently pierced ... surprised you the most about MIT?  How quickly it felt like home! And I ... conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  various spots on campus? 8) Tunnels? What tunnels? 9) How can I possibly ... ? (twss) 11) What computer should I buy? 12) I don't know Linux. Am I ... Well, March 15th was an experience, wasn't it? I know what you

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  post, I want to take a closer look at dorm structure, how it impacts ... lived in EC, and my experience likely would have been different had I been ... added or [annotation note="i'm not going to bother to explain how bad some

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  more than 50 years ago. What I love about CAPI (as it's called) is the honesty and integrity with which B.A.T. wrote, which values I hope (and think) still guide our office today. I know it's been a big influence on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  Here are the classes I'm taking this term: 14.05: Macroeconomics ... Nobel Prize and National Medal of Science) good thing I have: An alarm ... thing I have: A copy of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on DVD 21F

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Howdy homies! Has it really been over a year since I posted this? Holy giggles it has! Now I don't know about you beautiful folks, but I still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  Residential Director for MacGregor last year, but realized how much I dislike ... better. So, mostly I'm trying to figure out how to put my voice into ... people or how to chameleon in various social situations. I have a lot of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  workaround. As a simple example, if I gave you a very long list of numbers (2 ... , but couldn’t possibly store them all, you would need a different tactic ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  rent for the few weeks we are here. Yes, I am one of them—I got to campus last Saturday and for the past week I’ve been working nonstop on EC rush ... : Come on, anyone? Aw, what the heck. I stayed in Simmons this summer, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  entirely man-made. I had originally called this entry "Dirty old river, must you keep rolling?" but I figured that nobody else would get that either ... stirs up toxic sediment. And as long as I'm at it, an excerpt from the 6

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... it more together than me). Worry #2: I became less sure I would fit in ... whether or not you would like it here. Concern #4: Along those lines, I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  millions of users. That's how people can start their own websites without ... the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big ... support staff, were funded in part by IBM, How is timeshare computing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  MIT; what majors and opportunities are offered; what I would have done ... I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   woke up ~ 5 am today. it was early and the sun had not risen. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at CityLab — The Atlantic magazine’s website on the urbanized world. Amid ... I could and observing web traffic data as soon as my articles are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... video, and we also heard from some who said, “Yeah, but how come you are ... more robots in the Media Lab." And to that I say, of course, that’s MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012