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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would ... academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT problem sets. The 17.803 section also discusses why MIT right now is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school friends and I during our superhero day. The other one was holding a picture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to ... there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the ... so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I ... physics, but today I’m here representing the American Astronomical Society

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  months. Yay!!! Either that or you're gearing up and anxiously awaiting the release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... out in the real world. That's right, electricity bills, rent, gas

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break ... and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier today, I received an email from Sivakami '11, asking me to do the same

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  recitation for the semester - since we don't have class next Friday, and the following week consists of an orgo exam, and the week after is dead week, and the week after is (ahhh) finals. - I finished my last bag of popcorn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  into something disproportionately large and cumbersome, like the Snorlax ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people assembled in my floor lounge singing the original Pokémon theme song making

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is the ChemE building), I actually have time to shop at Trader Joe’s at least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... recently, we flew through a cloud-bank and I was able to take the crazy ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for the Master's degree as well as the Bachelor's in only 5 years. (If the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky and breaking like bones on the trash-encrusted sidewalk. Jess Lin and I waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... , the answer doesn't matter very much anyway. I got a 39 on my first math

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... Kamen. Today is the kickoff to the FIRST Robotics season. And, as is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  One of the most memorable conversations that I’ve had at MIT was also one of the shortest. It went something like this -- “ ... there?” “Why not solve global warming on the continent that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007