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  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  when I started crying, and I was the last of my friends to break down. On ... ." ___________________________________________ Prefrosh!!! We have Early Action adMITs now, and the circle of (admissions ... s are full of excitement and hope. As a senior blogger, I’ve gotten

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at ... 'm concerned) and exams (also not lecture). So, that's about 160 hours of lecture ... to take on 15+ hours of lecture a week (although probably not attending

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  , relation, and tidbit of information from the lectures onto one of your four ... . Later in the week, our housemasters Roe and Bronwyn, both of whom have ... in time to continue on my merry thermodynamical way. And finally, Ruth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  thinking of how Tucson is small and everything overlaps, memories on memories ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... it, and a tall, steep slide with no railings, a relic of past building

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  . I ultimately settled on SCRB 192: Principles of Drug Design and ... who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... from my advisor and the professor of the class, and filling out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  Formal This year it was at the State Room which is on the 33rd floor of an ... Thursday: Medlinks auction So on Thursday, the Medlinks had a dating auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  meant putting down whatever mess going on in my head into words and making ... with my time and ultimately my life. Throughout all of freshman year, I ... above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and ... , and that none of them were harmed in the making of this hack.   ... strangest and most exotic creature of them all: the wild, weird humans of MIT.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... to my ever growing collection, and we saw arrays of spices, golden ... of the main city. Along the way, we passed by a beautiful mosque and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... deranged. And don’t even get me started on quantum “computers”. I bet you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  't crazy and would take the MIT SafeRide OnDemand shuttle service (which was ... all kinds of snacks and critically analyze the goods like the food ... 'm told that these are one of Trader Joe's most popular items. And in fact

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  , and, of course, score free tickets to movies that people shouldn ... to stage a coup of the vampire empire, which may actually be evil and ... nation's hottest emo bands on the soundtrack. Last night, Shawna and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  friendly department (like most of MIT), and our size lets us provide an ... life and technical area of research, electrical engineering or computer ... be incredibly smart and full of great ideas, but so are you. The key is

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  , here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus ... /Southern food in Boston, with a lot of culture and attitude. 55 Chester St ... jazz brunches on the weekends, and half-price (cheap!) dinners before 6pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  . One of my lifelong goals was to teach a math class and have it on OCW. I ... , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... analysis: 18.100A, 18.100B, 18.100P, and 18.100Q. A few things of note: i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  an uninterrupted 20 minutes, approx. 9 am, my room on the fifth floor of east campus: outside sounds, sink sounds, door sounds, my sounds use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion ... (on the MIT 5.0 scale) and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on ... member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to ... this great, all-powerful piece of plastic, my first name and middle

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  , a recommendation and/or a transcript — of your Early Action ... take 2-4 business days from the time of receipt to be processed and show up on your MyMIT tracking page. If you think one of your missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  the usual business of walking up long driveways and knocking on doors ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014