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  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have ... . This wasn't something that I considered when moving in, but being able to ... and a cotton candy machine (not pictured, because I still don’t know how

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... I G H T – animation assignments. So the long weekend Saturday, 10 ... , but those did happen, don’t worry!) (sidenote 2: the numbers in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  Champions. If that wasn't enough, I also helped out with recruiting for MIT ... another and with my classes I don't even know what to do or where to go anymore. At one point, I had "info session" on my calendar, and couldn't

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack ... project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didn't ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  long story short is that after I wrote that blog post, I didn’t actually ... Admissions that most of you probably have no idea who I am. I mean, I don’t even look like my avatar anymore (but Petey doesn't have hair anymore

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  will get a camera so these videos won't have such terrible quaility lol). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... don't want to watch the video I do want to write a little bit more about

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... the spot. I didn't have my own startup yet so I just focused on getting ... "disposable toothbrushes" (aren't all toothbrushes disposable?) to "like an i

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  before the academic storm, when classes had started but I didn’t yet have ... , and NASA. I wasn’t originally planning on externing (if MIT has taught ... quality, and are working on other things I can’t speak about publicly right

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  had to worry about a lot of things I didn't have to worry about while I ... actively cultivating a social life (so much harder when you don't live in a ... what I don't. I know how to treasure (and defend) my silence, my solitude

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... like a plan. My room is beautiful! But then I realize I haven’t had

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  don’t need a graduation requirement to convince me to take that! First ... resigned myself to the fact that I just don’t really like exercise. But since ... A) you don’t have to worry about maxing out the freshman credit limit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  language that just doesn’t stick for me. While I’m fairly capable of ... . I feel like all of my years of Spanish learning haven’t necessarily ... suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  possible. (image from Pinterest) I don’t remember when I failed to enjoy my ... fall semester, the fuel from Orientation leaked, and I couldn’t keep up a ... clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male ... seeing how people were actively trying to create change. People here weren't ... Matsuoda, the VP of Technology at Nest, she admitted that she didn't do

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved ... math and my own abilities. After taking 18.02 and 18.03, I just wasn't stellar at it anymore, probably because I didn't study enough, and mostly

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  January 11 Hostel Colonial House, Quito I'm currently wearing two t ... shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery ... ! Ultimately, he decided that Mac and Cheese wouldn’t help him complete his p ... , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles. And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go ... experience and higher-level coursework under their belts. That didn't stop me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  later pool their ideas). 2.00b wasn't free of those group dynamics, of ... honest criticism when someone thinks your work is shoddy.  Don't settle for ... something. Don't be afraid to actively take contrary positions to create

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech ... isn’t something that MIT can give or take away, and it isn’t something ... puzzle I enjoyed and worked on with my friend Catherine O. ‘12 (but didn’t

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013