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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and deeply consider why I found MIT so hard--and exactly what it is that causes ... teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  loved both words and numbers, but the former came more naturally. In no time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved ... school) days are gone, and I’m not so self-assured. This semester, all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... Third) DTYD started in 1969 when two Bombers (Classes of ’70 and ’71) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  [/caption] Here's every class I went to: #1: 6.4110, Representation, Inference and ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this ... our own virtual machine and learn about all the nitty-gritty details of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  my ramblings resonate perfectly. And if that's the case, then that ... , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play ... surprisingly large pool of obscure and random knowledge, and even more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  My dear friend and fellow blogger Kidist A. '22 requested I write a ... goes! I've outlined my general steps and linked to my old posts to give ... my life and the world around me. Are there are any patterns I'd like to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of adorable and beautiful things produced by MIT students. 1. Storytime Way back ... seen her out and about on the blogs. We had run into each other before

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and ... of these goals and meticulously drew out a chart listing each habit and ... grand total of five days. naturally, i'm pretty discouraged and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those things that make you realize your own identity, its advantages and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  . Same classes, same classmates, everyone is doing the same assignments and ... , maybe an AP Apple, a Boxed Mik of a Basic Language, and a Common Core ... ’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  what's in here and what has been strategically left out could fill a few ... boyfriend #1) for a couple of years and told myself that, despite getting gas ... high school romance and I was like yeah I love this dude. And then at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  MIT: Brandon, who graduated from MIT in 2009 and is working on his PhD at Vanderbilt, and Hendrik, a current MIT graduate student.   ... lived in Random Hall as an undergrad, back when Clam and Bonfire were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and ... accessing sites on the network and those on the outside unable to access the ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country—and ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... Conner 2 (2nd floor, Conner side of Burton-Conner dorm) and I no longer had ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  --building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... would cost me around $500, and I was on a student budget. But what if I built my own? I could easily make the entire camera (used lens and all

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... relative to your beginning knowledge base and your overall effort within the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered them in a comment. Be fruitful and check it out. Another question you ... , and e-mailing me for my first year at MIT. It all started when I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005