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  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  a lot of it is learning how to learn. At one point a TA asked me ... knew how to persevere. I've already made it through countless classes ... matter how much I probed and poked at it. Of course, it was disappointing

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  Believe it or not, this is not a post about how the bloggers are ... webpage. In fact, it does fill a webpage. A final ironic twist: My college ... -study, grocery shopping (trust me, it takes time to choose between 20432039 kinds

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  ), and I should document it more. The days are long but the years are short ... release how I managed to do this because it is so embarrassing to my core ... me. If anyone has advice on how to stop this I would appreciate it

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  -scale bridge and calculate how strong I could make it for very little weight. I ... of how I could use the course material to design it. Stress, beam ... arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  , what does it mean to be mentally healthy? at the lab where i UROPed this ... no one to mention it to. Only then does it get lonely. "n ... how I feel about the pace--I like that it is demanding (particularly for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  first place, considering how much entropy he put in it.), Stamps, the kind ... Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by ... solve Shor cells in the C shell.” Long story shor(t), I moved out of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  comment: “you can actually tell that people live here!” It’s funny how much ... statistically improbable, it does happen! If you’re familiar with East Side ... -approved as long as you follow certain guidelines in a contract you sign

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a ... friend. Is it emo enough? Spotted at the Boston Museum of Science: one ... view from the inside of Lobby 10, right under the Great Dome. It makes me

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  hundred species of birds. Over eight hundred species of birds.  How does ... <NEWSFLASH> I woke up Thursday morning, realized it was March ... enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  : How does changing the intensity of a title influence a person’s memory ... parts of the poster the viewer zoomed in on, and for how long. This is an ... It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good, only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  the way down does allow you to walk faster in the sense that it allows ... it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense ... in ways that impair walking, i’m sorry and i have no idea what it’s

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  the ones at the beginning of YouTube videos but it does block all the ... upload your device's location every 20 minutes as long as it's powered on ... can attest to how well they work.     Note Taking: Evernote

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  " without really having any idea about how to change it, or going to ... " without any regard as to the "how, specifically?" It's the same reason that ... honestly don't really remember how I wrote it—I just know I spent a lot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  , the deeper that path got. It’s important to learn how to tell yourself ... "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful, sad, and beautifully sad post, and it immediately resonated with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  enjoying it for maybe fifteen seconds and I’ll be like, aw, how cute, a nice ... ? Well, maybe. I would say that it depends whether or not you consider cats ... jiggling when you poke it (puru puru) and pretty much you can treat him like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  the beginning, so how could it not all turn out okay? I’m glad to have ... it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here ... culture is quite important at MIT: you can choose how much you do or don

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... half-asleep. It’s been a while since a movie has kept me up past my internally strict bedtime. It’s been even longer since a movie has lingered

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  . it felt real, attainable.']that’s how the bloggers’ voices made me feel ... /software that’s created and how does that reshape our reality? so i found science ... be dead. no matter where you go, it only takes so long before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  figuring out how to use those… It really wouldn’t be MIT if my room did not ... bottle with a long straw going through it. Hydrate or diedrate folks. The ... has stayed on my wrist so long. I can’t really take it off, and I’m not

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023