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  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in trouble a second time for telling my teacher to go to hell when she ... Academy for elementary school. I got better at English and learned how to ... me to be for the three or four hours when school was over and work wasn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  ") for 25 years. He was the undergrad academic/research advisor for three of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift ... - take, for example, everything related to 18.02 ever - but if I fail at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... other. He says that MIT was the only school he applied to, and for him it ... friend who was on his way to a job orientation for the World Wide Web

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in ... try to ensure that no player on offense is left open, meaning for each ... that the kick is too fast for the goalkeeper to react effectively to, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  . food, in general, is a nice way to express care for someone else. there ... house teams put up snacks in dorm lounges for people to take. friends bake ... do want to try to cultivate this feeling. not for the sake of being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... 't want to walk to places like [annotation note="i would die for a grilled ... one off Amazon for <$20"]accessible,[/annotation] and easy to use

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  class I need for the pirate certificate, making me especially excited to ... . Radio hosting I’ve been meaning to join this club for so long! WMBR has ... of me. How was I to do it seven more times? The soon-to-be graduates

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -budget startups and nonprofits to pay me something resembling minimum wage for my ... pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... without pictures, so here are 14 photos from 2024 to compensate for my 14

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  my mentor and manager chose a very fitting project for me to work on ... . This was my primary reason for wanting to apply to grad school: I love my ... pressure cooked for all of my academic life would help me regain it. To be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  inconvenient (scattered around the web, for example) and I'd have to go collect ... does it mean for the data to not be ready to analyze? Maybe there's a lot ... is represented to make for a more straightforward analysis. For

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  the subway for the first time, but getting to meet the students at the ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short of an adventure. For instance, I came here straight from the country

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... ) go to market; they present their products at a huge event before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  the Nobel committee for being the first to produce an efficient metal ... So it's Nobel Prize week, and this year, MIT has been able to add another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... distinct disadvantage, even applying to a program for minority students. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a ... to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid vacation day. I'm always one to shoot for the underdog, the least privileged ... I'm always one to celebrate the more obscure holidays. After all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  isn't actually testing for H1N1, so there's no way to know if I have it ... can e-mail professors. So for now it's up to me to just hydrate, chill (literally and figuratively), and wait for this to go away. Awesome.

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  ) it's time for anyone who's interested in blogging to share your writing ... student culture. We pay you for this work. It’s a pretty good gig, to be ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... stop typing for more than 7 seconds.   This works to cook up a ... right flavor. I bake my post to perfection and let it sit for about a day

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017