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  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  month is that my focus in school has been wrong. During my first two and a ... source project, which is a great idea. I urge all of you to join me in this ... scientist, much like you or I. Unlike you or I, he is a multi-millionaire. He

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  , highlighter, or anything else. A good deal of the surface area here is made of ... -bootcamp that set in during a hellish week. So I decided to leave something ... else. I hope this a reminder that, even when your nose is to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face ... questions? How many biology classes did you take for a semester? For overall

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  attended. In a room in the student center, the organization had put about thirty chairs in a circle so that anyone could stop by and ask the author a ... the questions on the table. It was a great experience, and in that room

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto ... clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first ... I had three tests in a row, plus a problem set due that same Thursday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  to see that humor is valued as much as other "typical" applicant qualities, which leaves me wondering how in the world it makes such a ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  arrived in another world. The rainforest is a solid block of plants. There ... this year during IAP. January is the wet season in Brazil, and it rains a lot. Next to every building is a deep groove in the concrete caused by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of ... . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about ... result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  . Participation in the ISOs is neither a requirement nor expectation of applicants ... EducationUSA (EdUSA) office in American Corner. EdUSA is a U.S. Department of ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven cardinal sins. 2. Sleep is a member of the set . Therefore, sleep is a sin. 3. sleep(t) = sin(wt), where sleep is a function of time. 5. sin is a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would ... I wanted the free wireless), and the guy who was working there made a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... she is working in a cognitive science lab. She came to MIT to do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  ? Summarize some of the material you are studying in a way that is ... where the satellite is in its orbit + keep track of it Figure out how ... a significant amount of sitting in coffee shops (rip) and studying for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  ="83279" image4="83280" /] I even drew a giant pigeon mural in my room! 5. The ... lounge Having a lounge space to hang out with friends is integral to my Simmons social life. I like how I could live on a different floor – or even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We ... possible  Something that is the same as last year, but a change from our ... match everything in your record much more quickly You should configure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and ... with so much energy before.    the show went by in the blink of an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... all. Here is a story about Derp Cat's intelligence. One day, Derp Cat ... window is fixed and with a screen. But that day, there was no screen to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in the Life.  This is one day where students all over campus - grad

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  spend a lot of my day living in my own head, which is another high school ... of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020