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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... [/caption] It's easy. If you find a template you like, you barely have to do any ... going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  4 years now. I'll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... the time and see printed in a bunch of books, but there are two bits of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... activities were made available by each hall to aid in that purpose. A few ... , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  things in his room, we head to a math lounge in one of their buildings that ... competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... , and talk to them about random stuff, but every once in a while there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  , informatics, and biology. In each country there's a selection process to try to ... ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only ... as a really cool thing. Being at MIT meant that I was going to school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  ! See if you can find them in the archives!) Mikey, as you can see from ... video, but Rebecca Black is Mikey's kryptonite. In his office he drew a ... take the time to relax and have a little fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student ... ). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  , it will potentially involve re-programming a WiiMote. To that end, my coworker sent me some links to a project that his friend had worked on, which ... Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  MIThon, which is an animation hackathon (in true MIT spirit) to make a 30 second ... have to try a couple semesters before getting in. Danny's in the class ... basically a week long immersion in the arts! We did not get to participate in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the ... my interest in historical research. Fiction Workshop is a great class

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... myself to leave the 'tute, so I took a job at MIT after graduation at the ... to ask specific questions - I'll try to answer in the comments), but if

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  . I wish there were ways that our society could find a way to enable ... we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... independent college admissions counselors. It was a great opportunity for me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  a pass/fail system. (Similar to 6.005 but labs are all or nothing) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E ... project graded both individually and as a group. One thing to keep in mind

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is ... entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... want to teach in a saviouristic way, and I become a little more hesitant ... to learn how to teach in a way that works for them, and that I don

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  to know them a little better. If you're nice to them, they might be willing to snag a cot for you to sleep on, which means you won't have to lug ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010