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  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  tear-inducingly beautiful data visualization that you are about to see ... . I present to you: immersion.media.mit.edu. The Collective Learning group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  other, miscellaneous things to worry about but combine them together, and ... about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful ... two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu.   Between Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and ... graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... reason I dream to return each time. I’ll refrain from describing her so as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to ... . Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2: rotors rotating, spanners spanning, you should be able to check your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... of alumni friends messaging you to tell you that their company could

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to central Massachusetts ... involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... return at approximately 1-2 PM on Sunday. Everyone is invited to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be ... out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I ... hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... teaching myself the language Processing, adding to Matlab, Python, VB.NET, and Assembly that I learned since coming to MIT.) Fun!  See? Anyways

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  thing I currently have to a job, and expecting me to have any deep insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to analyze Hamlet, or a Harvard student to solve a math problem. So I'll leave

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper. Sounds legit right? At this point, you might be curious as to how we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at LaVerdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie that I NEEDED to basically inhale at that point in time when I dropped my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... to read and write than other students, and she has to spend extra time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011