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• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list ... department. Within IS&T there are people in charge of running Athena (the ... web space (anything with mit.edu in it), plus tons more stuff. Within IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  free software like gnuradio), you can have a working FM radio in about an ... degrees F. Mix the sugars, vanilla, eggs, and applesauce in a big bowl ... doing a bunch of fancy signal processing using analog electronics. in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  first classroom is in a decently sized lecture hall, so I spend that time ... , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... follows the same schedule, here is a look back on last Friday. 8:37 - My

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  information in order to make a decision, but there is no substitute for ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  ,700-$2,100 for a single. -Boston is reallllly nice in the summer! The winter ... are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to stay in Boston over the summer: -The UROP summer 2006 stipend is $4

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... such a break from how i’ve been viewing the world. how is it possible

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  amazed at just how much of a difference that kind of commitment makes ... This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  interaction that is at the core of much true creativity -- and thus in the great ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  . That, in general, is a good strategy. Follow the cool people and make ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event ... . What should you pack for the four fun-filled days? How do you pick a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... . Reality had just set in, hard. Next I called Kidist A. '22. Then I called

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where ... will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice ... can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  make claims as to whether or not someone is a good candidate because in ... environment is like. Are the people happy? Does everyone get along? How much ... after my shameful high school performance? How many people get in with a

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  I, had gotten a postcard while nobody else had. There's not much else ... DID YOU KNOW? John McCain is 2.41 Saturn years old. Funny story. On ... , and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... teacher lunch is okay. There isn't much pizza left by the time I arrive ... 'm not a huge fan of salad dressing in general, and DEFINITELY not a huge

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis ... in over a month. Just a lot of loose ends to tie up, you know? I ... make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge ... Battlecode real-time strategy game. This is a one-month hardcore coding skills contest for both beginner and advanced coders. It's a programming project
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the ... and unbothered. The sky that day was not in a hurry: the clouds drifted ... than meaningful, since I don’t believe in there being such a thing as

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  want. So in a very literal way, engineering is my life, and with ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that ... 's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... course 2, but how easy is it to take classes in neuroscience outside of one ... had 530 kids in it, but there was a small core of smart kids who had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  philosophy class in the freshman year learning community Concourse, which is a ... research very much. Here is a blog about that whole thought process. I was ... grading was pretty strict) Learning how the world works—and that there is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025