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  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream ... .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera ... startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... it's just as pretty as ever.  Derek and I revel in the art, and then we ... across campus to Next. I consider turning in at this point, but MIT's Music

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something ... reminders. Of things I believe strongly in and hold near and dear to my heart

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself ... conversation. In this way, I can talk to anyone even if it may be difficult. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... who were different from me. I was always very constant in my emotions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  few days later, I found myself in an office with Hardi Meybaum, co ... meeting later, and I was offered an internship for January. If you can ... least for me). I’ll be spending my IAP playing ice hockey for the MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  normalcy and community we can, my housemates and I have produced our own ... can see, we have quite a collection here (not even counting the one I ... stuff, and that is why I am Miske. (I am definitively the maximalist in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be honest: I was bummed yesterday when Prof. Alan Guth '68 was again shut out for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  getting better at writing,[/annotation]and I can see[annotation note="in ... situation. What if this went wrong? "Well, I can solve that problem in this ... , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my ... Attention Span Documentary: [annotation note="look at how the f and i in that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  in bits all around the website. I do feel funny clarifying this, but if ... activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  . In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list ... raised in a world without the its classic taste). After that, I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  ? Of data rearranged?” another OperaBot asks. “How can I ... chandelier, in all of its hypar glory, which I had for many years passed by in ... voice! My goodness, can these people sing! Although I have been fortunate

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  in a place like this. I'd be too distracted gawking around at the ... office window. Suddenly I found myself in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, in the ... around me. Then I was teleported to Kibera, the largest slum in Africa

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  good scripts that I can [annotation note="(and maybe publish?? 🥺)"]illustrate[/annotation] in ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... classes I’m taking this semester, but they're still in flux. Instead, I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  together with your friends! You can watch the demo video linked in the ... and I was in the passenger seat trying my best to keep up with how OP ... type of creativity that I enjoy expressing but rarely get to in highly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... with Silly Names -Hairy Ball Theorem You can probably guess which one I ... Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we ... left. I got to talk to Ben Jones, who is more awesome in person, if that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  the semester at around 5 or 6 and in those next two weeks or so I drop what I can't handle / don't think I prioritize as much. This time, I am ... I have some interest in AI but if I fail 6.006 Intro to Algorithms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021