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  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  officially Principles of Chemical Science"]5.111,[/annotation] I did very well ... Once upon a time in a land far, far away A group of schoolchildren ... saying that didn't feel like dramatic enough of an opening. I wanted it to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers ... thousand-person hackathon?  My friends have gotten sick of me yapping about

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  Media Arts and Science One of our goals before graduating was to UROP in ... of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... covers 5 main areas of computer graphics - splines, character rigging

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered ... ; you can find our site here spend dozens of hours reading through code ... . identify every instance of outdated code and rewrite everything in terms of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  classes, like 18.100B, this applies only up to a finite amount of lateness ... later into something more like a random assortment of wingdings characters ... week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  driver’s manual because none of those laws apply to me anymore so I assumed ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline ... perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school forms (teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  -19 policy briefs as part of a class assignment"]political science class ... Data Science in Politics"]last class of the day.[/annotation] Sitting ... Harvard announced that they were evicting the vast majority of their

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  character syndrome." I agree. I think my sense of self is a little too acute ... I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail ... backdrop of the rain. It was abnormally warm – maybe as high as [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea. Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  failing hard and early was essential for us to apply all of our learnings ... For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious ... , though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the ... , chemical and computer science companies in California, tech companies in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here. The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... making a website. By the end of week 1, we formed teams and submitted ideas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011