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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  down and worked for a bit while enjoying the food. Good luck to Suzy on taking on this important position.   -One hour and a thousand ... Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  rationalizing the fact that I wasn't going to office hours to get to know ... [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  time, you really want to protect your time at MIT and learn the important ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  to the wall of my office. I have regulars at office hours whose ... school teacher once told me that it was important “always to find [one ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world, I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  turns out, knowing your limits and actually listening to them is important ... managed to Make Friends in about two hours, and were joyously skipping from ... not limited to: crying multiple times suffering violent diarrhea

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you have the huge, official guide to CPW events, but don't you want some ... This is going to be my third CPW, and all I can tell you that you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  go for 3 hours on Saturdays. I am trying to be a part of MIT Lecture ... !) CMS.300 - Intro to Videogame Theory; Excited for this class mainly ... just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  important work done in the 1970s concerning aflatoxin, had volunteered to ... , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  extracurricular activities.. 'in order of what's important'... does that have to be ... hope you'll list the activities in order of their importance to you ... First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  important to actually gaining 'hard' skills. But I can't see myself as a ... that important, but it's unequivocally useful to know how to program. And ... my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  it's not realistic to work more than twenty-five hours in addition to ... our trip to Nicaragua, it’s also important to take breaks which is why I ... my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  of urop after that, and then rushed off to another 3 hour class at ... 't started researching, so I took another 3 hours to research, and almost another 3 hours to write everything up and find enough citations. Yup - that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On my way…

  

  cancelled. I will now be getting home almost 4 full hours earlier than I originally expected! Yippee! Right. Well, my train leaves in just over 2 hours, and I have a few things to finish up here before heading home for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  pulled my jaw to the floor and stapled it there for two hours. On ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... . 3. People who go to MIT lose their ability to count. Also, they forget

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  think one of the most important things at MIT is not learning to be ... form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer what to do step by step, what variables, etc. Then, you learn the syntax

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... important for us to stop seeing dyslexia as a learning disability and start ... undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  system which is meant to estimate the number of hours you’re intended to be ... units, corresponding to an expected 12 hours of work per week. By contrast ... to be some of the most important results in experimental Physics. With

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  gives a good description of how MIT’s units/hours are supposed to work ... to try it again! Toddler me really understood the importance of ... hours I spent wishing that I’d gotten to experience just a little bit of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022