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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  your ability to use what you understand about a process to derive ... than you're used to in high school, both in number and in letter. The 5 ... 's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... 's a step in a proof I have trouble motivating, and thinking about how to motivate that step in a blog post leads to insights I would never have had

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  head to a lecture or museum. The variety of museums in Brazil has proven ... mountainside where there used to be a waterfall, considered the environmental ... the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I ... life. I found it somehow unacceptable to just be a normal person who uses ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  subway in…  NYC   Before this summer, I went to NYC once with a friend ... ’m trying to find the overlap of my interests–like using my writing class to ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom ... 'll be well on your way. 4) Find things to do in small blocks of time. Did ... some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  than the outside air *in a fancy voice* "very nice." – Kayode To ... surgery patients in the U.S." janet: i really want to ask a question ... not born in a circus so i had to learn" "... my illegal walk" THIS GUY

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  I find it a lot more useful to go through old problem sets and tests ... -- if used wisely and as a financial tool, it can really help to have that ... -new adult, FCU is a good place to start. If nothing else, use it to buy a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  , I wasted no time in applying to MISTI, in finding ways to spend my ... Venezuela to Germany without knowing a single German sentence. As a student, he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  designed to work as a complementary major for students majoring in science ... experience (unexpectedly) majoring in Science Writing and going on to become a ... in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  Facebook feed to find a ring that can replace my CharlieCard, an RFID ... 're RFID-enabled rings that you can use to pretty much punch your way into a ... visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  Material Point Method, the method used to create the snow simulation in ... . One-Way coupling is a method used to create boundary conditions for ... Motion. Ray Casting and Lighting Models are used to shade the objects in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... couldn't find her; she'd disappeared to go eat lunch at a nearby Mc ... a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... useful?) first sunrise in Baltimore, Saturday morning, from an airplane ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  itself accessibility (ease to find/use/access) privacy level (gap size ... recently started charging to use their API so I switched to a free ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  useful.  If you’re planning to forgo a mealplan, I’d recommend that you actually learn how to cook a few filling, [annotation note="eat your veggies ... shops that participate in TGTG. Use TGTG as an excuse to try new foods and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  100 categories. We used these examples to train a neural network that ... ? First things first: We need a dataset  In order to develop and evaluate ... are machine learning concepts. Basically, a training set is used to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018