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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  presidential election in the United States. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both ... 6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  “ptooie” because I don’t have a smartphone and I think data plans are a rip-off. And because I wish my desktop computer’s LCD screens would have a ... looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... I was here and I affected MIT in ways other than bringing down the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... the storyline, the adventures we had, our victories and defeats, and ... little glimpse into the average Mystery Hunt puzzle solving session and a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them ... satisfaction and 2) way more scratch paper than you'll ever need. I always get ... a single word), Sudoku, and so many more. Sometimes I even have two at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... newer bloggers with older styles and vice versa etc. Their idea was pretty ... illustrated by Shun Liang for student, staff, and alum bloggers. This dataset

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in psychology and cognitive science is extremely prevalent and ... famous results such as the dunning-kruger effect and the stanford prisoner ... details on experiment setup and validity you’ll have to look into it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in ... decisions; and having permadeath, meaning once your character dies, you have to start over from the beginning. The archetypical example, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  Board schedule and realized that unfortunately you’re all almost done with AP exams ... still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... , because it reminds me that I have strategies, and makes me feel less like I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading Hemingway in dramatic black and white. There is perhaps my favorite meme that has been going around tumblr and finally found its way into our corner

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  friend who was a current MIT student friend who offered to take her and any ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times ... -up are Cheats and Munimuni, both with 3 songs. There's 5 songs that are explicitly covers: Minsan, My Body Is a Cage, Dear Kuya, Mamma Mia, and Hurt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  . People introduce themselves as coming from states, and not provinces. Back ... big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and shows I’ve watched since birth, and that media consumption played a big

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  the blogs, but the situation with senior haus has been on my mind and ... , give one-sided, pathos-inspired opinions or rants about what I think and ... unbiased as possible, and then tell you about what happened to me earlier

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... .  We had a snow day and when I called my grandmother to tell her, she ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle, analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited the colosseum, pantheon, and several archeological sites, did research

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  ! Read it here: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute ... Announcement, the yearly blogs project to announce the time and date that MIT ... Near the end of IAP, this email thread was revitalized, and after the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  University of Michigan, with the group that uses and produces signac, a data ... many do! And among those who do, so much variety exists, in quantity, arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  down and instantly get my degree?? 9/9/21 My friend sent an email to ... semester, sweet and sour, while I looked through my photos. Let's start at ... the email, recognized my friend's name, and screenshotted it and sent it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally. I sat on my bed silently. My fingers were numb and my breaths were ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016