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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for the beauty of it, but I recognize math as a tool to be used in ... 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

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

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

  

  , a relic of who I used to be. I’ve been scraping through these old ... , most true to me posts I could find, taken for what they are (in addition ... for a STEM camp. I wanted a way to keep in touch with these people that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  context, used to indicate a family of multiple similar subjects, varying in ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To ... once used as a yardstick to measure the Harvard Bridge (n.) Tim (n

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers

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

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... me she heard about a daycare in the town next to ours that had job

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  decide between majors is to take classes in them! Pick a HASS class, like ... . There's also OfCourse, a website that uses algorithms™ to recommend which ... , which helps a lot in deciding between them. With access to syllabi, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... --they’ve turned into a “ghost”! Can also be used when simply referring to friends or ... , intelligent people in a single place. It is a good place to meet people you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  Question #12 on your 18.03 problem set, which happens to use a lot of ... pop-up windows on his desktop responded to his mouse clicks in a ... exaggerated clarity and make a point of crisp, rapid pronunciation in everyday

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  in appearance or actions, I chose to use “Butch Heroes” to indicate ... 's office to say hi and check in with my pi, a postdoc offered me a ... such an incredible collection. whatever you find is going to add a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  , back in London, my friends and I used to hide in trees and alarm passers ... admissions officer, but I have faith that there's a way to find that attitude ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  have previously received an A/A+ in a class might be asked to be a grader ... to find people, but if you have skills, use them!   Run MIT ... As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick ... ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in and pretending that you’re battling demons in order to get a better pump

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a ... ; Day 2: Pocket In transitioning from a Web to a Pocket, the critter has ... confers the capability to move randomly in search of a spot to anchor on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... length segments, on the XY plane, and then use a Box component to extrude ... :1 water to grain ratio), and your bouillon of choice, and place it in a pot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  story. Unless it’s a matter of health and safety – in that case, use your ... classmates is a good place to start. Staying in your comfort zone is easy, but ... that you’re used to—especially now, before you’ve settled into a more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... , in order to understand my past as a proto-software engineer, I’ll start ... a lot about selling out and finding meaning in their lives. I read

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track of my assignments. I used a Google Chrome extension called Draftback to ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] click to enlarge[/caption] To make this plot, I used a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  ="84016" image2="84015" /] A solution to this would have been to use stoppers in ... , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was set opposite a skull, which I made while learning how to use chisels

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... explore MIT. A word to the wise: investing a lot of time in a hobby or interest will often be far more rewarding than trying to juggle a double in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011