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  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  for the Mac, I have come to love later versions of Safari in a way I ... admitted to MIT without completing a science SAT II (for someone who is a ... 's completely impossible for me to even have the slightest idea if you'd make a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  run from September 11 to October 24. (PE classes last half a semester ... /PhD programs work differently -- my friend Jen '06, for example, is picking a lab ... regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  place is just a front for a DARPA-funded human breeding project. However ... world who are a little bit off-the-charts in their potential for this ... for each other, then you also might just realize that they have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  . Here at MIT, the date is significant for a different reason - it's the ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third Law dictates that it applies to the frosh as well. An important note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... the end I think they like me more for it. It's better for them to have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  online work can be a helpful distraction for those of you who are waiting ... that Twitter offers as a medium for storytelling that make it a very ... —“OMG guys, cut it out!”—he’s going to be conspicuously absent for a period of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... unrestricted elective credit for a 5 on any humanities AP exam except Studio Art ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  ask me questions any time; you don't just have to wait for a blog entry ... I have a "me-them" mentality... If MIT was a nice match for me, wouldn ... Academy. I have a few questions for you: -Will MIT consider applicants who

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  why you are perfect for each other, and you feel a deep sense of ... look back on it and smile. for now and hopefully for a long time, for me ... poetry reading for a class; last weekend i went to the MFA, danced, worked

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort ... to a handful of basic calls, and I enjoyed it enough to sign up for ... Course 15, and only signed up for the class on a whim. I’m really looking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  time here at MIT. So like any good Type A personality, I've made a list of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... have to leave the house to carpe diem. Help make MIT a better place

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  important for us to stop seeing dyslexia as a learning disability and start ... This is my final paper for Science Journalism, a science writing ... for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  campsite for a half hour, we finally settled at the fire pit by the cabin and ... for a couple more hours and just enjoyed each other's company. It was so ... were all exhausted for the ride home, but we all made it, and we had a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• 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…

  

  the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T. for short) is producing the opera ... Powers) practice their curtain call for what will undoubtedly be a very ... [by Ken Haggerty '11] Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera has

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

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... bed (which in all honesty is harder than you might think). For a ... other side. I would say this stayed true for a majority of my second

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up ... definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... interested in writing about what happened in my day (life was very boring for a ... feel very bad for this version of myself, who had somehow at such a young

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  have been saving up money for a major purchase you’re likely to quickly ... late signal for the problem’s emergence. in many cases it is such a late ... key accuracy as a proxy for piano skill, i’d accidentally equated the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into ... ,[/annotation] a period of time in which lots of undergrads are preparing for or are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022