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  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily ... pieces of vegan chocolate cake, to be had. The birthday girl lapped up

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to choose any topic or field to explore in the realm of computational

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  complicated compound that is extremely difficult to make. Instead of relying ... plasmid, or small circular piece of DNA, into the bacteria, Ana is ... species that will allow the bacteria to produce a major intermediate of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... pretty awesome themselves, but the computers on which we did labs had this ... composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people ... cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... are psyched about airplanes." I felt really glad to be a part of Course

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs ... This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays ... - easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  to get sucked into the MIT mindset (or as I like to think of it, the ... changes to walk, or taking in the occasionally beautiful weather on the ... this. Or this. Sometimes MIT feels like one intense workout on a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is ... active members. MIT QSN is a relatively new group on campus; some of the ... choice to make, which I’ll talk about a little bit later. On campus, I got

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  were never able to tell funny jokes (or give the correct window count of ... something along the lines of “20 HV, which is about as hard as paper, so not ... "]creepy old building[/annotation] on campus, so I kind of expected Bard to guess

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  maybe 4 to 5 equivalents of this amount of stuff: My stuff, looking a ... Aspire: Bringing Textbooks to Developing Countries As part of the FSILG&D challenge (which I previously covered), some of the residents of Next House

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of ... ask the room full of prefrosh who showed up to play Smash on some old ... . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  'd better get out of there once I had my picture so they could go home and ... 're selecting Early Action applicants. Yes, on a Saturday. These folks are amazing ... leaving for the day :-) They both looked kind of tired, but as you can tell

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  edu. Not going to lie, folks. Being an admissions blogger is the bomb ... ). And on top of all of that I make dat cash moneyz. So, you know, it's an ... braggy and say that on top of all of that stuff, I even like some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  . I'm not really laying on my bed, I'm kind of shoved into it, feet ... out today and the sky is full of clouds, it's dreary, all of the students are still in bed, broken, and there is this sense of dread

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  engine outside, the lack of wifi (unless you're on a fancy flight or just ... in the back of my mind: what about Course 6? To give some clarity on ... years, as opposed to the typical six. It is...pretty tempting. But of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  a mold. The warm plastic is then sucked down on top of the mold to ... real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is ... biased or anything... Overall, 2.008 is definitely one of the best classes

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013