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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... an external contractor. past years of 16.82 and 16.83 (the analogous ... superior and more rigorous to the so-called "soft sciences." MIT's school of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course ... locus of control -- so the semesters I've been really stressed and ... over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first ... and championing climate change denialism for the financial benefit of ... patronage of the Koch family and the fossil fuel industry, and realign its

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  , and the first that it has been federally recognized as such. Earlier ... People’s Day. As we do so, let us reflect on the richness and resilience of ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the ... inside of a normal balloon, and then use a metal straw to suck the air out

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few ... find them offensive. Gender and Sexuality "That's gay in the way of ... 'll be able to say the same magnitude of stupid shit, and still be able to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... extraordinaire and recent joiner of the ranks of the notebook addicted, and the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities ... college sports for the first time, had just joined my sorority, and was ... D I took the Concourse version of this class, and I found it so hard

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its ... with it coming in. And because of this, the class has gotten a lot of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  sandwich, eat, and rest before the first segment of the competition, the ... center of the ice. My music begins, and I skate towards my first jump. I go ... 75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  just a shade above the difficulty level of baking-soda-and ... and live a monastic life of solitude in a single down the hall. Katelyn ... the long and illustrious history of our beloved dorm, a proposal that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the ... doctor and are thinking of coming to MIT first, you're not setting yourself ... sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  of “PNR shall be missed.” And with the first week of [annotation note ... heard throughout first semester. They fall under the categories of, what I ... less a list of phrases and more the collective tendency to excuse poor

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they ... on and on about stories of the origin of many of the most famous hacks ... past residents of Tetazoo! And there was so much food! The alumni helped

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members ... the basic premise of the characters, the card-counting method, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  , and yet it's such a foundational technique in the field of genetics ... in the field onto whole RNA sequencing as a way of getting a fuller ... points. Definition is a big and important part of science. The human

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... who built the Apollo Guidance Computer and Buzz Aldrin ScD '63 himself (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas ... classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... because of cyclical reinforcing feelings that math became uninteresting and

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam ... lights up offensively bright shades of neon blue and red, and the blaring ... lot, and talk in the dark. Many of the people from my childhood have

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023