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  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you ... ’s really quick, they said. The person giving me the shot last year even ... , and three minutes later, I got my flu shot. And I was awed. The flu

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  I liked two things: building stuff and the human body (and what can go ... , scientists, and MD-PhD students. (Pictures from San Francisco will be included ... ; Physical Oceanography from 1981-1983) and Course 23 (which used to be Modern

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  completely blew past the page and word minimum for this essay, and it was an ... sources being used in the Bronx, cogeneration and combined heat/power (CHP ... the semester, and it was Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin). I had

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Boston sometime. All you SF MIT folks and NY MIT folks and international ... but you can't reveal it yet. And good luck to those of you starting grad ... morning to cheer on my class from the outside as they walked from Kresge to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  . Turns out that there is no page on the entire internet that scientifically ... of metallurgy, you would be the most knowledgable individual at MIT on ... whether this complete immobilization would indeed be the effect of rapidly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  concept of "midyear grades." This is okay. You can ignore the text boxes and ... the option "Semester grades will be available on ... Midyear Grade Report is intended for students who have indicated on the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a ... . On the news, in magazines, at the watercooler - it happens all day, and ... . The idea being that if you look up there and see that 28 hasn't hit in

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  claimed that the phosphates of the DNA chains should be located on the ... opened fire on the students, wounding 9 and killing 4. Just think about ... high school. Anyway, the biography was great and from what I understand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community" Thursday, February 16, 4pm ... interesting lecture/discussion. The featured speaker will be Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  ’s possible to ‘solo’ something, engaging others is fun and can usually be more ... . Bundy, WhiteFang, Renaissance and Gadget (friends who I met on the Trail ... celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  are incomplete and shouldn't be on the Internet at this time. And I said ... think I tend to be too bookish and focused on post-graduation plans ... balancing family and American culture; I identify strongly with the main

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  , before remembering there is studying to be done and cooking can take a lot ... Verde's, the small grocery store on campus, and I go for Anna's. On four hours of ... one of the people on shift with me for money, but I can't pay them back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  . We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... Tuesday, beans for lunch and rice for dinner. Sure, the rice on each day ... . ** On a school morning, we went from the bathrooms to the dining hall, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  . We then test the gels' mechanical properties and, on occasion, test ... cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... —for example, the spokes on a bike wheel could be distinguished now, whereas ... found the place on Google Maps and handed it to him. He rotated the phone

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Philosophy EDIT: I just realized that the "Majors and Minors" page on the ... .0" you set out the cardinal rule of the process as being "Be Honest" and do ... heard it all- the good, the bad, and the ugly, and they can smell BS about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Jake told me it had been on one of the 5.111 lecture slides and i had ... enough experience to pass on to the freshmen. Now I can shamelessly tell ... hall legends are passed on. --- Incidentally, you can give advice to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  [/caption] Living with chronic illness sucks, and I can’t wait for the new medication ... on the amazingly welcoming Chicago artist and disabled communities. I ... returned to the blogs to let people know: “I did not graduate from MIT on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  On Saturday, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 Americans who have won ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... immunology and has worked at the NIST, and at the NIH human genome research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  .  Before each performance, the performers and directors would come together and sit in a big circle on the stage, underneath the red curtains we ... of the chessboard? He said “Can I kiss you?” and I said “Can you?” and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022