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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  their blog, Shayna A. '23 gives a full account of the pain and outrage ... To understand this post, you need two important bits of context ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  , projects, or any other sources of structured accountability that we're ... They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  'll be supported, or which of our suggestions will be taken into account ... love that each dorm has a unique vibe and set of traditions and that prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  saving time, right? It made sense, of course, until you tried to account ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  . There is a fish tank in my sister's bedroom that is a constant source of ... of a fish tank to bring my bag's water temperature to equilibrium with ... note="It's one of those fox, chicken, bag of corn problems. Dog 1 is old

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
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  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  individual meetings. Largely through the efforts of our online logistics ... &T's help, we secured MIT Zoom accounts for many of our teachers who didn ... perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of which are linked above. Most are online; if you’re on campus the ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a LaTeX-based CAPTCHA, and the super PAC Why Not ZoidPAC?, of which he is President and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  many amazing new people is exciting. I spend a lot of time online during ... -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
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  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  the underseasoning of the fish sticks, or is it a function of the ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  there were a lot of times where I really struggled with the online ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now, with my last final of my freshman year tomorrow, I am now a computer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
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  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  account of something else"; i.e. that which is most complete and most ... 've left my copy of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics [annotation note="this is particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  . Several non-MIT puzzlehunt traditions started. Of the ones available online ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
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  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
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  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of Moultrie, Georgia, where he and his carpenter dad worked on a lot of projects

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
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  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
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  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  bs online. It’s a different life in the real world, but orders of ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my best friends walk down Killian Court and out of my day-to-day life. All

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  problem of “was valedictorian and suddenly isn’t the baddest fish in the sea ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller ... over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015