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  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that ... , the correspondence usually isn't so great, but it's still a good indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  state, the model returned (1) what word it thinks it is (2) how confident ... ratings were high, but it ended up being one of my favorite classes that I've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  floor of tEp"]32,[/annotation] the Prudential rules its brownstone pawns alongside its deputy skyscrapers with a steely temper. Beneath them all, city ... Valley hoodie. This side is beautiful, but it already knows that. Perhaps

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It ... through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and ... , without fail. It makes sense—pre-pandemic, everything was wonderful! and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... have been Doing nonstop. I think it might be a personality thing. I tend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  all of my professors in a different way. I don't know, call it Stockholm ... that Frau Bittner used to wear, how Professor Virk compares drag reduction to the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and how Professor Dalzell is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... in the news lately because on Thursday, it revived an old MIT ... enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker resident, Charles Bruno '74

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after ... , and industry. His habits are nocturnal. He does his best work in the ... appointed its own Ring Committee to uphold these time-honored traditions. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  amazing coffee machine that does everything from hot chocolate to a damn ... , number 15, is possibly the most important thing I will miss. It's the people that you meet that make the wealth of life. It's this group of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  at MIT doesn't mean shutting other opportunities out, but it does mean ... commitment wasn't worth it. So it's a personal choice. Let's take a look at the ... and disciplined during the semesters. It's worth mentioning that the MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... , humanities, math (whatever, basically, though it makes it more difficult. I ... .091 (Solid-State Chemistry), though it's not recommended because the 5.11-s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  trip to Zambia had seen this show and quoted it nonstop. I had never seen an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  narratives of how it reflects your character and personality, and how you would ... typo last fall... oops. Print it out to see how it looks on paper, and ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ever: Delete your Public folder. Even if you try and fix it two minutes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  Wow. I've had an intense week. And it's only Wednesday. Now, finally ... 'm Kimd when it comes to admissions blogging, since there's another Kim. As ... of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  from UCLA (go Bruins!) visited last week, and couldn't believe how warm and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning ... a limitless light behind it. I kept stalling out. "Chill OUT," Rob ordered me, over and over. It's the same thing David Carr said to me a year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... marks and such in plain text, and this makes me so, so happy. Umm...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a ... First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005