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• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... . Like many MIT freshmen, I liked being good at things, and I liked being ... .0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  back for, and that, obviously, is the most fun we have all year. Since ... server, so we headed over to our dorm and started decorating. We added orange and black banners, a speaker system, fireworks, and "DTYD" in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in 2021 and beyond). We made this decision after considerable study, in ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet ... touchscreens: 🤢 3D modeling and animation: ❌ 2D illustration and graphic

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... intimidatingly) as a “bomb cyclone” hit us yesterday with a foot of snow, and it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  proximity to so many creative and amazing individuals, and right now is one of ... Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its creation are Catherine Zeng ‘20, Robert Henning ‘20, and Jingwei Ma ‘20

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms, and the class sparked an entire international "Fab lab" movement. Each ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  Let this blog post (as unrefined, unedited and typo-ridden as it may ... go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... thoughts and providing encouragement. Yesterday, I went to mass at St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I-made-the-thing have made some final projects almost worth all the work and stress that I ... status)  and many are finished and polished prototypes that, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the Internet rather than on your personal computer. Think "Dropbox" and even ... , computers only came in three sizes: large, really large, and giant. And the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and ... this class called "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and went through my normal morning routine: showering, packing my bag, and ... stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  yesterday, and two weeks since my last blog post, which also still feels like yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which shows just how ... amassed a large collection of various colorful shirts and trinkets This

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  sports.  These hardcore ice climbers and mountaineers, braving the unknown - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  this Friday), and attempting to put together and remember choreography on ... good time and if you're anywhere vaguely in the vicinity of the Boston ... -the-end-of-the-semester feelings (last day of classes in next Wednesday, and finals week follows

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  flexible with the deadline, and as such, we've extended the deadline to submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 to tonight, January 3, 2013, at 11:59pm EST ... moment! To submit Parts 1 and 2, log in to your account on MyMIT. You can

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste ... (thanks Craigslist!) and people to live with, but the fact that it was all ... tired after I get home from work and the gym to actually chop things up

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an ... . We walked into what would eventually become my new home, and there was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011