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  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash ... of safe and effective marksmanship techniques used in the pursuit of ... the month, starting with my first round on January 12th and the next few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... of snipers and motorcades but in terms of actually seeing the president

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of the 10 hours of lectures and recitations every week, I was present ... wee hours of the morning. The sun came up over my unfinished work, and I ... (Autobiographical) - 21W.731 As of right now, I really like the selection and variety

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the ... translation but does not capture the whole of the phrase ... mostly from one portion of one class taken over a year ago, and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  the first few pages, and stopped when I reached blue ink. There was a ... name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  , and we talk about a whole bunch of interesting stuff. Some of the ... outside the room and attempt to find the latest version of the Asymptones ... at midnight. Oops.) At the end of class, we get our midterms back, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... floor and its pieces flew across the room under different couches, as if ... terminal and the Apple GUI depending on what I need to do. I also like the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... decision fatigue for a few reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that it ... wear the same rotation of flannels and sweaters this time of year: to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  change of seasons you hole up indoors, let the rain fall, and get cozy. Most of the rest of this blog post is by Cory R. ‘14, the source and home ... Squares, near the Cambridge Public Library.           Winter and sunset

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  , not because of the presentation. And now I have good lectures, and I ... of arbitrary, because the math is difficult and not intuitive to me. So ... brain turned to mush in the classroom, and math was an hour of reading

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
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  The end of a chapter

  

  my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... as a bridge between the cellular and the whole-organism levels, helping me gain a very balanced and complete picture of biology as a whole. It

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  agony of the blank page ever again.) I have some good news. Writing is ... first assemble together. Before the socializing and advice sharing gets ... . We might get a subject prompt, a first line of inspiration, or the

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  people all the time and really want to feel a part of a larger community ... , living off campus is a good option. Here is my list of pros and cons: The Pros: Separation between school and the rest of my life. Even though I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
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  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  up to orientation and all the Adult things I needed to keep track of ... ;Accept your room offer in one of the student houses and wire the required ... . Throw the rest of your stuff into storage. Say bye to everyone and hope

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling ... though I wasn't rejected the first time I applied, I was deferred, and it ... of the applicant pool, this time considering your mid year report. And

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  lot of time doing that first year of high school (and all of the other ... , and it wasn’t the end of the world. Learned that college Was in Fact ... historical integrity of the piece, you’ll have to reload the page if you want

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... pictures). Part 7: The Battles Go On... So the whole Students and Sleep vs ... : MIThenge Anyways, besides the whole school part of this school, there are a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
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  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  over the course of the month and gradually show more bits of my life ... pushed off the first page! So I'm bumping it back up to the top because I ... stick a master list of all my vlogs at the top of the page with some handy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  PI (principal investigator, aka the head honcho of a lab), first author is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work (and hence gets the most credit), and the rest of the authors are

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  can really get into the meat and potatoes of what I want to talk about, I want to first introduce the structure of my internship: I'm part of ... . I looked at the team names and I felt nothing. No spark of excitement

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020