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  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  have all the information at the same time. Or the amount of information cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

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

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... good ol’ fashioned car bash? At this rush event, people from all walks of ... completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Rotten.com's biography of Woz: When Steve Jobs worked at Atari, the company ... was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  me three classes away from a chem degree. Regardless of what anyone may ... intention of pursuing a dual degree said this: "Were you insane?" Maybe I am ... anything new. I bought the camera to celebrate the end of my dual degree

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  them for most of the weekend. (Pictures are at the bottom of the entry ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  me before. But at the same time, I realized that in the midst of my ... out there, then I'm making good use of my time at MIT and it would prove ... probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  allele’ at 2 am, six hours before pset is due*) 21M.294 (Popular Music of ... that generously-portioned shahi paneer and chicken pakora at the end of a ... living at the confluence of a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and an economic

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Institute of Technology. She said she arrived at high school with a passion ... ranked second in my class and I applied at several out-of ... local school, I applied at University of Texas, but my first choice was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  skeptical of my chances at getting into Microsoft, because I had only taken ... . And out of all three teams at Microsoft I applied to, I only got ... strawberries in a bowl, then bake at 365 degrees for 20 minutes." (Baking

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  classes at MIT as part of a series of xTalks hosted by the Office of ... Offering of Quantum Mechanics II), usually a fall course, can now also be ... See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... vegan) options every day. There are lots of vegetarians at MIT! :) Whether ... different levels of exposure (even at times little or none) to ECs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  before starting at Stanford next year. We both always have a ton of ... first semester of my master's degree here. GPA isn't that important for my ... have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... retired and stayed at home taking care of their mother-in-law, who was in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ’t think this degree of flexibility is necessarily bad, even if it can lead ... . 18-wheeler truck At MIT, most classes count for 12 units of academic ... in real life too – just look at the average number of hours per week in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... , engineering, or another field of study at MIT. This major includes a three ... taking a course load of nearly all writing classes, four or five at a time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this feature — which we developed ... translate to academic success at MIT if you cannot account for testing. Of ... offered at your high school, and there are immense disparities between

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never ... new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019