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  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  some of my notes from class on Friday: 11:30 - Classical Mechanics II ... . Recitation for 8.223 involves a lot of problem solving. We worked on a pendulum ... for this 10 guest lecture series on all varying topics of mathematics

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  on the side (hey, it's MIT). It is, as you are probably aware, one of ... my PhD program sent all of us new first-years an Excel spreadsheet with ... out of brick and concrete. :) People are pretty split on this issue

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all ... - why, that IS Ace of Base playing on my boombox! Tae bo, anyone?) - it ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class ... was good because I was up bright and early on Saturday. I showed up at ... just like in high school presentations (rate the speaker on a scale of 1

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  the driving force behind the new age of space travel because of that one ... in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into neither of these categories, I put off of grading 5.112 problem sets (which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  haven't had a whole lot of experience on shift. The latter, though, might ... ," I e-mailed a few of the crew chiefs on duty this last week, asking if ... encouraged me, helped me, and stuck by me as I fumbled my way into a modicum of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  things better, and redoing things would take a good amount of time"] should ... thousands, if not millions of images to train well, so 148 images was on the ... GAN-ADA pretrained on FFHQ, a large publicly available dataset of faces, to generate an

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  a good idea to build a city on hundreds of low-lying interconnected ... usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... normal size on Monday night. Before we even got our baggage out of baggage

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3 ... ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to one of our weekly fire jams. I've been fire spinning since freshman fall

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  outside that evening. One of the laptops on my desk is my personal computer ... new knowledge of humans and the worlds around and inside us. It makes me ... are working on. I’m very happy to have my own piece of a square in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... in, from my lab-mates, from my friends...and so on. Maybe it's not as personal as face-to-face conversation or talking on the phone, but it's handy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday ... get here. But it's a good different, there's a sense of achievement and ... of the popular mantra on balance here: "Work hard, play hard".

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  Tests (formerly known as SAT IIs). Seniors: spread the word, give good ... the final time this school year on Saturday, June 3. The deadline for ... the Subject Tests be taken in June, but I think it's a pretty good idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  - safe haven? All of these consequences are fast-forwarding through my ... Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  , as it turns out, was on campus with most (all?) of the MIT 2009 Early ... subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked ... Class of 2009. Akash, Ben and I had lunch together, and while we were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... "Haus". The oldest dorm on campus. Very accepting of alternative ...   Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  a new way, rational inquiry and social concern...the ethos of talking ... appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... (unbelievably) still used on fall travel recruitment well into the aughts. There

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because ... corner. the blankets on the floor are on top of a standard foam mattress ... new digital environment, cyber-utopians ended up belittling the role of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to ... lots of questions. It’s the way our students learn and will work well for ... and the best way to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011