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• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  to leave right away or we'd miss the concert. Well, after two years of ... "Dream On" (Aerosmith is a Boston band, remember), "Dreaming of You," and ... weekend was go down to the Hatch Shell on July 4th to see the Boston Pops

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards ... startups would have to overcome. Some of the things I learned: Fintech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be ... . This is similar to the Self-Reported Coursework Form from the Part 2 of ... ______________________ and I will mail or fax them to you at that time." Some of you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  bright light, and rods allow you to see better in the dark, which is why ... make it better. The first draft of that is here: [visually ... , in half hour blocks. On every day, Get Out of Bed is scheduled in for

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... things about MIT is that we are not part of the common application, which ... Dubstep. Okay, so someone please tell how this is any better than music from

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  extracurricular opportunities. Which is more important to me - academics or social ... side-by-side number comparisons of schools. It is time to focus on the ... questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  ; Back on topic, what does it mean to crash Tetris? Tetris is marketed as ... which is the specific version of the game that I play the most, and that I ... score is up to 611,986"]477,000[/annotation] on Tetris.com? Pretty good

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on ... significant time at all. "They're already on number 4 out of 5" I said to myself ... calculator. Most of my friends finished and went to bed around 11 or so, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  ), I've worked at the Computing Help Desk, which is part of Information ... it's like to be the person on the other end of the line when you place ... 'm waiting, I check out the "queue," which is a list of all of the unresolved

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... to me was this, paraphrased: Baltimore is better than ever. You ... . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , which is a real classic MIT experience). Here's what we got up to: I ... ="59152" /] On our return, I did several loads of laundry and went to bed with that ... evening, after a protracted battle over which movie to watch, we settled on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  moving on to the next song when one of the music directors of [annotation ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and ... also went to the Alte Pinakothek, which showcases a lot of old artwork. A ... depending on what you need to accomplish therein. One is labeled with a drop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  answer requires more than 50% of our comparisons to be wrong, which is such ... 3”, which usually amounts to one line of code. Think about how you ... % of the time. To give you a better sense of ALG, observe that it hinges

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  department is here, and the list of faculty interests is here. I promise to find a better answer to this question the next time I run into one of my ... there is a sort of coordinate system for buildings on main campus, and you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  is “Even Better than the Real Thing,” alluding to questions of ... took me about four hours to get through all of the works on display ... , like clouds or waves, and abstracting them to the point of pattern… The

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  closed to everything except essential travel. (Which included "work or ... next to one of my housemates or we laugh over some dumb MIT in ... , flying is not looking so hot right now. When I moved back to Cambridge this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of MIT's new Initiative on Technology and Self, which is working to ... and foremost purpose of going to college is to learn, but I'm torn about ... . From the assignment: "The nature of the comparison is up to you, and the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... beds and a staff to take care of you day and night until you're better ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they ... makes Seattle the city it is. For lack of a better word, it ... Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014