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

  

  the running sum to 2 + 3 = 5. Then you see 9, so you update the running sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually ... coin, the event of getting a head occurs with 50% probability, or 0.5

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  learn to love what used to be my least favorite subject! 5.12- Organic ... ? It's so clever!). Essentially it's a circuit in which a 1.5 V battery can power a LED that requires 3.5V for it to operate. Pretty cool

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  My typical summer weekday runs as follows: 5 AM: Beep ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... Merck for the day and start my 1.5- hour-long trip home. And this is where

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  work, psets, and consistently staying up till 4 am or 5 am. (4) It's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... ? Neurobio's my fave :) 5.60 - Thermodynamics and Kinetics I've never done

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  or 5.  It's been itneresting to boil my personal development down to 1 ... summer, I've realized I have less than 5 weeks left in my internship, and only 2.5 weeks left here in Bend.  I have yet to experience a lot of what

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on participation, and the remaining 5% on some in-class assignment that is supposedly ... taken over the ages. The class times are a little strange (Wed 3:30 - 5 pm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5 ... to 3, Calc Office Hours - 3 to 4, Seminar - 4 to 5:15. Um. Painful. 8 ... near future are largely expected. And dreaded. 5. I can do laundry. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (Tuesday at 5) "OK, all right. It's time to study CHEM. I've got to pass one ... (5.111) test at 12) Me: Oh hey 5.111-er! 5.111-er: Hey! Me: You ready for the test? 5.111-er: You know, I studied for days for that test

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  .02, 5.112 - Principles of Chemistry, 8.01 - Physics) and a seminar (The ... my first 5.112 exam of the year. As I scrawled energy equations all over my test booklet and frantically tried to finish problem 5 in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  . BSAHIBRPIECBNOG 4. AEUIUNTEECOTEABSHLRLSTEATMETENSPTETGAITTEETDWSSDSO 5 ... IT. Still no luck on Odd One Out, though. LAME. Update #5 (12:48 PM) I ... . Update #6 (5:40 AM) Somewhere around 18 puzzles solved except this DREADED

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  teaser: 5:30 - 6:00 AM: Wake up 6:00 - 7:15 AM: Mandatory NROTC Workout 7 ... seminar in Japanese Politics and Society 3:00 - 5:00 PM: seminar in Japanese Politics and Society 5:00 - 7:00 PM: Dinner/Homework 7:00 PM - 12:30 AM

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You ... : Monday and Wednesday 12:30 - 2 pm Lab: Wednesday 2 - 5 pm Professors: J ... for the record: Applied to 8 Schools Accepted to 5 Interviews at 2

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  instructor's permission. Professor: Ina Lipkowitz format: two 1.5 hour lectures ... contexts. Professor: Junot Diaz (wikipedia bio) format: two 1.5 hour lectures ... . Professor: James Buzard, head of the Lit Dept (MIT bio) format: two 1.5 hour

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of ... -It stuck to my computer screen: Deep breaths. (Items #1-5 are probably less ... comprehensive 1.5-hour not-really-but-sort-of final. I was super-stressed about it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately ... something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is ... idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... ) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week current material: In a positive (as ... Communication professor: Sara Fisher Ellison format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  classes are as follows... 5.12 (Organic Chemistry): This seems to be a ... 5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first-term frosh and barely passed, than I thought. 7.03 (Genetics): It's a 5th East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  fraternities and 5 sororities. The fraternities make up the Interfraternity Council, and the 5 sororities make up the Panhellenic Association. When I ... a period of little sleep. I've slept maybe 20 hours in the past 5 days

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  the contestants. Each pair of problems was solved by more than 2/5 of ... least 2 contestants who each solved exactly 5 problems. Each of the 6 ... finishing second in the world. Rounding out the top 5 were the teams from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal ... Economics Department: 5 " Consider that #1, the Clark Medal is given every

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005