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  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  students and community members first, and applicants second. We don’t want students to do things just because they think they have to. We don’t want ... the joy of learning. We don’t want a laundry list of a million

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right ... Beijing” post, because I realized that I hadn’t been to China in six years ... around. Six years ago, I couldn’t speak much Mandarin, and now I’m much

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  since I didn't know any. I spent the first few weeks learning Python on ... was also a co-web developer of the MIT Ring Committee 2017. I didn’t ... quit. I wasn't getting anywhere, and each time I started a new tutorial

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  PURSE OR SUITCASE OR WHATEVER DOESN'T HAVE TO BE RESCANNED EIGHT THOUSAND TIMES), and flew to New York, marveling at the fact that I hadn't spent a ... most of my fellow participants weren't STEM professionals; the vast

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  it isn’t just returning exactly the gift it was given and is obligated ... cryptogram, and from there, what could they be a cryptogram for? This one didn’t ... decent. I also helped write a piece of the endgame, which isn’t yet

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... dislike research because I didn't like how all the trials take so long and ... understand the work that you do, then most of the research doesn't seem like a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  Ben's room "more soulless than any dorm room I've seen at MIT." I haven't ... , according to them, we don't date or have fun?), because rarely do MIT students ... amidst Ikea furniture. "We actually didn't initially know what we were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  Sunday wasn't productive. Seriously, you try working when you know ... caught on fire and flipped over a couple of times but we didn't have any ... two over 18?" Right, I don't think I mentioned this. You have to be

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  . And since I can't really pick which one I most want to tell you about, I ... ) looking up T-shirts on Threadless; factoring numbers into a crossword ... (apparently, learning a card game simply by reading its Wikipedia article isn't

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to ... didn't get to see it all year. And usually during the school year, Adam and I go out on Friday nights, so I don't get to see Monk. But during

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Since I haven't updated all week, this entry will be super jam ... ...it could be that I just don't remember it. But Wednesday night I was working ... snow had melted. That didn't stop us. Aaron strapped on the skis and made

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  don't want only a hardcore engineering education and want to be able to ... a wide variety of people - many of which aren't really serious about academics like I am. thus, i don't really think I will fit in to a 'nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  true? n also.. If we register now, but when the time comes, we can't make ... wrote, "I can't come to CPW cause of an orch competition so I was just ... MyMIT portal. I wouldn't worry about it too much, though -- focus on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  morning routine slowly—I don't believe in breakfast, so I skip it, but even ... where the professor is. After all, we haven't gotten any emails from them ... 's not 10:30 AM; it's 10:28 AM. We didn't invent clocks for you to be wrong

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  ="Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. unfortunately I didn't get to visit, but i did stay at a town called Caernarfon ... one, wasn’t going to be anywhere as well equipped as MIT’s plethora of ... classroom management, but didn’t help much when ten kids all had different

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  well in this class. MIT doesn't have a separate Data Structures course ... didn't take this class because it is a 9am and I used to have a strict ... 'll admit I wasn't a fan of this lecture at all. The professor opened us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  comprehend, and this most likely means the phrase doesn't apply to you and you ... like "if you don't understand the wording, that probably means you don't ... what's reliable. - Little Me Once again, honestly didn't understand the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  [annotation note="I didn't have any <a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href ... didn't have anything due last week, so I thought, might as well get a heads' start. No, I haven't started studying for a final that early, ever

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  , when I blew up the air mattress, that I don’t actually have space for 2 ... .” Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, though, I have friends who can ... . So the “going incognito” plan didn’t work out great, but I enjoyed it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can't ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones ... and coolest people I know. Beyond the legal hurdles (e.g. you can't get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017