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• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... unmatched, playing copious amounts of redactle with Nora, making sure I am not

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... long and rich tradition of  "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill ... take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I ... salad, a baguette, and a pie-tin full of spaghetti with sausage, and ate ... . At my advanced age my pace of eating has slowed down somewhat (though I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011