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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all the members of our class (about 1000 people) and asked for "10-year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you ... finally... (10) If you're ever lost in Boston, just look towards the water

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  before my 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) problem set (pset) was due, and it ... half of it done before 5.13 recitation. 9:40 AM: Just remembered ... to make sure. 10:06 AM: Wikipedia. 10:07 AM: Facebook. 11:45 AM

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is ... to life at large? 5) Online scheduling/sign-up applications are the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  my classes (CGPA 9.2/10.0, not bad I guess) would always try my best to ... suggest. All this left me with 5 minutes time in evening to patch up things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  ambitions), become a lawyer (wrong), and be married with kids within 5-10 ... Happy 10th birthday, blogs!!! I made you a cake! (With help from ... reflect. This year is not only the blogs' 10th birthday, but also the 10th

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... dismiss quickly. 5. You have freedom to choose your classes It is so cool ... (I heard that it takes ~10 hours to prepare a 1 hour lecture) and they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  (Simmons)  =  (11.11%)(10.49%)  =  20.67% Pr(purple) (5.64%) We can similarly ... ’ Theorem, which I think, based on my 5.59 years of experience, is the very ... (Simmons|purple)  =  Pr(purple|Simmons) Pr(Simmons) Pr(purple) Simmons accounts for 10

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  -so-warm) space heater. (Um, hopefully no one from Housing reads the blogs.) 8:30-9:10 ... 56. It's cold outside. 9:35-10:55 -- Attend 9.15 (biochemistry ... biosynthesis, effects, and metabolism of melatonin. 10:56-11:03 -- Run to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ! We’ll start with Building 10, which you’re probably familiar with from ... ="495"] by john phelan, cc-by 3.0[/caption] That’s Building 10. Building 10 is the center of MIT. Building numbers generally go higher the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  mentally equipped for about 4.5 classes a semester so I've been sticking to ... badass than a forge"]3.095: Introduction to Metalsmithing[/annotation] 3.985/5 ... Mass Culture Course 5 5.08/7.08: Biological Chemistry II 5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of ... Movie (1992) 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 4. The Social Beaver (1956) 5 ... : 5% of undergraduates were women: In the video, a group of women

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1][2][3][4][5 ... in the worst imaginable case. Though it ended up taking me 5 years to ... coursework enjoyable. Either way, I think things will be okay. 5. My MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  your say, your body will silence 1 alarm, or 5 alarms. 10 if you really ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... uninitiated? How many hours can you commit? Experts suggest 6 to 10 per week

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  my parents or friends. Things like "I just got back from my 5.112 lecture in 10-250" or "I have three psets due every week this semester and ... equal to the height of Oliver Smoot ’62 (5 feet 7 inches), whose body was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10, whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but ... a break from my 5.111 problem set. I had dinner a few hours ago with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... . At 10:30pm, I was psetting in the lounge near my room (yes, on my ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  enjoyable occurrence during naptime. 5) An actual quote from Chris, upon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... libraries. 5. The probability that two bloggers who live next to each other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006