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  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... . Many hacks are internal, which is probably utterly uninteresting to you ... Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  . December 14th was the day. The Ultimate Day On Which I Learn Of My Rejection ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  decision actually determined some aspect of our futures, which was scary to ... statistics of how many deferred students get admitted, it was painful to think ... three) of summer job hunt cycles, *accepting* negative decisions is easier

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the ... on, so I'm not sure how reliable of a spot it is anymore. last year, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  the Class of 2029 will come to MIT (or go to any number of other ... ways—which, as I get older, I think is the key to changing The World in ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  match up to myself back then---which is totally incorrect, because ... forth. You tend to rely on academics as a sort-of pride because you haven ... of my friends who now live there or have lived there. Now it is home. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  inspired by "Stellar," which is MIT's platform for learning management. On ... about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of ... ="Taken as the average class size listed on firehose.guide"]size of the class

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... to MIT to find - that something which I would be willing to work on for ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... consumption algorithm". Time complexity is a measure of how long a program (or ... of the winning teams' strategies. My team is planning on doing this

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... . Professor Paxson is discussing the influence of culture on the individual. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to ... good for us to restrict the credit load of this small minority? Or were

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  (remember, this is a kid who didn't know what an Allen key was or how to ... absurd amounts of money in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street and ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  or so has probably had to have class in it at some point. This is ... our minds when we think of Batman?” It extends to other areas of life--is ... 's really something!” Every type of person is welcome to study at MIT, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who wants to reminisce back on my glory days at MIT. So, for future me: here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  , and yes, on many highways. My favorite part of traveling is visiting ... happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... learn how to drive on the highway. I took a couple driving lessons for

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to ... crises, an easy option is to focus solely on yourself. You could very ... )                                        (Updates on Facebook)  (Is that a purell stand? On top of Kresge? PC: Samir

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  't be able to resist creeping on the blogs to see what everybody is up to ... and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  things to change. I think it is this spirit of continual improvement, feedback, self-criticism... which is responsible for what is going on right ... role is also held by faculty who identify as women) to a part of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020