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  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  and upperclassmen, and to get a feel for what MIT has to offer socially ... first day of classes, and the first meeting of CMS.614/21W.791 Network ... , REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms and pick the place whose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, it's been announced with more and more fanfare every year. This ... pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow ... cameras were grainy, the sun kept moving behind clouds, and we had no idea

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... thinking and processes that can be used to mass manufacture products. As an ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to ... admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them" - Dan T. '85 (my boss) I chuckled and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and click refresh 200 times in a minute. You might get carpal tunnel! And you'll crush the server. And Labs will get fired. :-(   Ok, here

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but there's still plenty of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved ... place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to campus in less than two minutes and once lived in Africa and is actually named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the ... * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I can't wait to meet you all, really! French class is a lot of fun, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  first president born in the United States and the only president to speak ... Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , I looked into my internal state, and I found...calm. My troubles hadn ... while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self-reflection at all this summer. Usually, when things go wrong—and things have been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  internship. I finished my internship with Microsoft this past summer and got a shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And ... material I learned (and still love) from the UROP I did the summer after my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  today, so there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon and offer ... from the bottom. And because I didn't talk about anything MIT-related in the video and there has been a crazy amount of MIT-related things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT student group ESP (Educational Studies Program) and taught by MIT students and community members. ESP seems to contain most of my Random Hall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  ’m drawn to MIT’s unique writing department, which offers both creative and ... and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I ... It's been four years since I applied to MIT, and while I've been

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  only one that offered free food.The 5.111 staff would periodically invite students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere on campus – and a few places off campus – the money is deducted from

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  Structures), and 6.5440 (Algorithmic Lower Bounds), which are offered in a ... 6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far ... ’s often brutal and unforgiving academic gauntlet, yet also sad that I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  Some days are wonderful. Others are tough. And then... there are ... task harder, interaction tougher, and footstep heavier. The day feels oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  side, and a certain Institute of Technology it houses, reflects the voice ... brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... favorite side of the house. Well, there’s only two to choose from, and the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022