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  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... look into this class long before I did. However, since the theme of this ... already done ages ago by people much smarter than you, I think I’m well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The ... .[/annotation] There are so many people here whom I love, and whom I have no clue when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes ... documentation, bottom right.   ——   But, no finals meant I was free ... on Thursday, fly away I did. I ran back to my room, packed my bags, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all numbers, I couldn't get this editor to bullet the nested lists :( ) Read ... . Build a thing You are creative. You can do things. I know it. Does your

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... the letter contained in the tubes, which I've embedded below.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  thing I’m all bundled up though, with a beanie and down jacket. 9 ... :00: OK, so I woke up later than I intended, so my training session was cut short. Ideally I’d wake up early enough to skate the full session starting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT ... little over a year ago, I visited my City Councilor during his weekly office hours. As an urban planning student, I had learned a bit about the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to address some concerns about CPW by sharing my own experiences. Recently, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk ... for my next blog post and I took a dainty sip from my aluminum water ... the scanner in CopyTech and my belated post could finally be uploaded. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  week ago, and I already have four problem sets due and a quiz this week.  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to ... .  Like I said, MIT is a really stressful place filled with really stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  alliteration.   But I digress, after all I'm not here to wax nostalgic ... , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma splices to make the Voynich Manuscript look like Shakespeare. No what I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a ... and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... semester. After three and a half jam-packed years at MIT (including IAPs), I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  basic gist, as I'm sure you know, is that Americans work their tails off ... something I noticed a couple months ago – this: What's that, you ask? The top is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on the others!). Sometimes I go through these periods where I end up doing ... because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  thy salad (/exaggeration). Every morning for the past two weeks, I ... bench and shaded by many a tree. Every time I pass, beautiful and poetic ... a good place to study solid-state chemistry.” So I should confess now

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007