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  A Day at the Beach: Quick Trips From MIT The ocean is only a short train ride or drive away!

  Growing up in the Midwest, my "beach" experiences consisted of the sands of Lake Michigan or small lakes in Wisconsin and Michigan. Living ... longer. Even better, many of them are accessible via the commuter rail

  • by mitblogs
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... taught it, Fall 2012, he earned a 6.8/7.0 teaching score in the end of term ... gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... ), and it's one of the true ones. Looking around just my floor, I see Vicki ... trips to caves on the weekends. As another example, there are loads of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  fish. But a conventional fish finder examines only a small slice of the ... square miles of the ocean and find millions of fish. Rather than being used ... conservationists to study the behavior of large populations, what marine biologists

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the ... poems or lyrics.  The other class, 21L.430, is Popular Narratives of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

   (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in ... a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that ... determined that santa monica studio (the place i work) had bought all of its

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... weekend (now the #1 movie in the country): Lots of folks have been ... , "'4-145,' the blackjack team room, should be one of the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... Night of Toolage: a long, long night of grueling problem sets due the next

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... ”, 2)] After we submitted the lab, we thought about the power of this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  on some kind of maturation pedestal - and it is worthy of the hype I ... unjaded by the responsibilities and consequences of adult life. As much as ... the top of my list. Expectations of parents. What a struggle. Given MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per ... number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I ... signed up for the latter along with half of MIT, because how could anyone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  's Last Stand.  The Battle of the Alamo.  That one time those buff Spartan ... the face of a massive power outage, keeping that one light on, is the only person keeping this world in balance.  He's kind of like the Avatar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  of the things that seem the most puntable are the things that make me ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and ... from a distance. Here’s one of the stories my parents tell about the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  essentially the lovechild of an etch-a-sketch and a drill press. Using two dials ... , cutting grooves, notches, and all sorts of neat shapes into it. The "CNC ... the top of the dome, because I'm pretty sure there are some. I also put

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It ... shot clinic was one of the coolest things I’ve seen since I got here, and ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  the beginning of the summer, because he was helping me move into my ... of a problem (problem as in problem set, not personal problem). And the ... preview of the finished project, or at least the project as it is now. We

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  Music Room (the name of our TV room at Skullhouse) at 2 am watching ... chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... large amount of smoke coming from behind one of the buildings. Not sure of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC's premiere of the show in 10-250, Ankur '04, shared some of his thoughts and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006