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  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... . My only qualm is that it occasionally gives me a kernel panic, and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , and why this post is in the same series. Because this is a "Mystery Hunt ... Hunt are diegetic in a meta sense. The Hunt is itself about a puzzlehunt ... . Sandbagging is a term used in racing, cue sports, grappling, poker, video games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  conference due in a month.  I chose… none of them. I chose to withdraw and to ... kind to myself remains a work in process. wave imagery inspired by ... Sooo I wrote about pouring my heart out into a research conference

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  and crafts Mitra and Bryan took a trip to China in 2010 with other ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... did feel joyful. I could have been in a lot of different places when the ... even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be ... had they gotten in the door when a loud explosion took place, all lights ... were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses ... science major (with a potential double major in ???? because there's too ... . In lab, you are randomly paired with a partner, with whom you complete

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... in the face. With a steel chair. Then there was the long, long flight

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  : What it’s like being a student in this strange place This is an essay by ... it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... nervous because I share a lot of qualities with the author's young self

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  a very long written document as well as orally in front of a group of ... , which is breathtaking enough to divide into a very small number of ... a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  parts were in one document and both caused a rollercoaster of emotions for ... 6. In this post, I reflect on previous Yultide posts, in a quasi ... composed the draft right away in a stroke of inspiration—an occurrence so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  find most comforting through all of this is that in talking to a range of ... simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... of sentiment still stands. A photo of me from sometime in the Fall

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... shelf.* This is a wonderful book - it captures the lifestyle perfectly. Me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go ... ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that's okay, really. Because the bruise on my arm is a great conversation ... snowboard?" "Er, I try...") and falling is a good way to learn to laugh at ... , but just in case I run out). HOWEVER, (and this is where my advice goes

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  by James M. Cain - This is a novella, and was originally published in ... than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a ... (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i ... pick out a piece from their collection that they can hang up in their ... PIECE????????? (i spent a considerable amount of time in my formative

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday ... . Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing ... in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  is the top school in my district, and gives a lot of college credits ... [/annotation] It is my lifetime goal to try a corndog For the first time in my life ... elsewhere, the current students, even some of the graduates—are in a unique

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020