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  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now. The semester is really underway now, so that means tests and psets and projects are all happening at…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make me look…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  Yes, I’ve read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn’t feel like writing about them. I’ll be back at school soon, where I’ll actually have cool…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say “finally” because I’m pretty…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we’re going to follow up on this white water rapids question. Some interesting theories have been tossed around, and I’d like to discuss them, because I have nothing…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  Ruth said: “Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text. Go!” The girl wants pictures, let’s give her pictures: Ruth Miller ’07, the newly-elected Undergraduate Association Vice President, gracefully…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that’s what MIT is in the end, don’t kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of course, I did nothing…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  So here’s the new plan: instead of me always spending all week planning out these elaborate blog entries for you guys involving photos, anecdotes, lots of links, and coherent structure,…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  Regulation Insights: http://www.nera.com/Newsletter.asp?n_ID=27. For more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  Friday night was Burton 3rd’s “Anything But Clothes” party, which is exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I knew two of my best…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  .85 Class rank: N/A College classes: Creative Writing (an intro class

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  surface area of 0.03 mm2, a specific membrane capacitance of cm = 10 nF/mm2

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  :01:45 EDT] From: Brian N. To: Sam Maurer Subject: Re: bad science question On

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  , prevention of dementia and dyslexia. Enrollment limited to 25. T. N. Byrne 11

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Brahms & Tomorrowland (2015)

  

  Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Lewis Music Library, which I’m glad about, because Lewis Music was the first study space on MIT campus that I…

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  test (100 yard swim and five minutes treading water, respectively) during

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  $500, and four finalists were going to win $100. The objective was to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  it, but I managed to convince him that it would be worth at least $100

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  snowy Boston IAP, sitting in the back three rows of 26-100 with the soccer ... using Python (6.100L) → Rank A This is the extended, full-semester version ... coding experience (even if it's not MATLAB—shout out 6.100L!!!). Doing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025