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• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  readings and assignments. In this course you will do a great deal of reading, writing, and class discussion, perhaps more than you have done in most of ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  from the sacrifices of my soldiers to brighten your day. May you win your battles just as we prepare to defeat our finals once again in this infinite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  to get you in MIT or keep you out. So think about something else :P ... . AND ONE THING I REALLY HATE IS USING SPACE ON MY COMPUTER - via you know ... in the derrière these days. (Also, the programs just suck - yet they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... back, Anirudh '16 and Samvaran '12 busted out some dance moves in the ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  the previous three years I was in MITSO), you better believe I booked it ... qualities as Prof. Diaz. I was so lucky to have an educator like her. You can never be thankful enough for a good teacher, and in some ways you won

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  , you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the ... , plus you're making a lot more money, while they're stuck in lab." Even ... The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... , chocolate chip banana pancakes and pizza you-guessed-it from scratch was in ... ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... often have trouble wrapping my head around, and it can be very frustrating ... , somewhere, and they know what's going on. They can wrap their brain around

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  always love being around people who love to create. So you can imagine my ... told that they will be up in the next few days on Fora.TV, and you should ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  'clock, you in?" "Hm, that's really tempting," I mused, "Very very tempting ... fashionable leather jacket and blue jeans (an outfit you'll find me in on a near ... you just can't figure out why nobody else is wearing pants either. If

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  -. Since MIT doesn't count plusses or minuses in calculating your GPA ... DID YOU KNOW? Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer has been wanted by the US ... by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  acceptable to do that... In any case ~ I wish all of you the best with your ... have three finals spread out over the course of next week: 5.13 (orgo), 9 ... : Monday 9 am - 12 pm: 18.03 (Diff Eq) Monday 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm: 5.13 (Orgo

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In ... revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what ... tidbits beyond my intro you should know that I can have entire conversations

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  , etc. If you can smoothly work in some questions regarding our background ... who are nice in their correspondence. This is especially true if you are ... to clients. We call this the “grandmother test” – can you explain your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a ... doomsday devices)...so Chemcials + engineering...can you tell me what a real

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  less when you're out there in it. because that's really all any of us can ... undergraduates, whom we admitted, in the main, four years ago. In the intervening ... guides, and, in my case, the students who took my classes. We have had the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  have a blog where you can write about whatever you want?” (TNC himself is ... overestimate what we can do in a short period of time and underestimate what we can do in a long period of time. Here, he reminds us that a career is

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

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  'aime and Oceans 13 for $3 each. The films are shown in one of the large ... At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007