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• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for ... expectations. For now, I’m kinda just existing wherever the world plops me. At ... .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  awesome. I woke up early this morning, 8am, for EMS drills, and although I ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East ... students burgers, as well as dye their hair! Every Friday at 5pm, East

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

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help ... presentations were over at 2100. Long day. But the reward for such a long arduous ... that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  units mean that this is not a huge time commitment at all. My hope for ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend ... , and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  : in my 5 semesters here at MIT so far, I have only used Matlab for ... . I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... . And then occasionally, for a real thrill, we'd go watch the B ... watch, but I decided playing wasn't for me since I seemed to have two left

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  know of at MIT, at least for undergrads (I'm not sure if there's any on ... , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  places at the same time, I had to wake up very early to go fly for Draper ... of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... " scale. Pset number two was for 16.05 "Thermal Energy" or more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... At East Campus HouseComm last week, we learned something unexpected ... than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell Someone Something They'd Rather Not Hear," "Hello, World: Manners for the ... first arrived at Charm School, I was greeted by an incredible jazz quintet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  much it. We can talk—or argue—about music for hours upon hours. We have ... . Anyways, he's now a freshman at St. Edward's University, a small liberal ... building to see three guys hammering away at their instruments in the back

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  time spent : points earned ratio is at least 5x higher for the project ... slower than the target runtime. at that point i ran out of ideas for ... theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  blogger, I was [annotation note="REX stands for Residence EXploration, where ... "]REX[/annotation] chair for Next House. This was a stressful time—along with a co-chair and ... only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military ... information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So what actually is ROTC? ROTC stands for Reserve Officers' Training Corps

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... at Hong Kong University for the fall semester and then travel across ... help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  , maybe, if she didn't mind, so sorry about that. That's Japan for you. I ... ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... everything happens for a reason. And so I'm trying to convince myself I am out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... in Random Hall's Stairwell. At MIT circa Finals Week, people tend to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  deserves to sit there and let itself rot for at least one hour per week. That ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from ... :48 PM To: conner 2 I am NOT reserving the floor lounge at 8 PM on Tuesday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this ... . I work at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, for the ... outbreaks like this one for about a decade, starting during my MEng at MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025