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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  some reason, I've always been fascinated with schedules, calendars ... , nonetheless help govern and organize our lives. Combine that fascination with ... on Monday and Friday, since that leaves me with a solid four-hour block

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  - which will be coming soon, I promise. But it's silly to plow ahead with ... . My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of ... last year, I've been really impressed with the level of maturity you have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at ... series of conversations about adolescent health with pediatricians, like ... with the doctors, that was what threw me over the edge," Jones says. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  most interesting events and you can fill in the rest with your overactive imagination. I awoke with a jerk. Finding that the weather report was calling ... secret room in the back and found a display copy for us to play with in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  In yesterday's entry, I wrote, "With 5 days [now 4 days] until the ... five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... students feel? How well do students cope with stress? What is the general

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  remember really well: staying up until 3 am finishing a PSET with 15 other ... snowy Boston IAP, sitting in the back three rows of 26-100 with the soccer ... community for students with an interest in the blend of STEM and humanities

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with ... skills are learnable with the help and support from the community. I really ... because I'm most familiar with them, but many other makerspaces on campus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  entailed but were tasked with throwing the party despite our lack of ... met with Hannah '19, a former floor chair, to discuss the party and all ... alumni addresses for updates, we had an addressing party. With a few dozen

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  table usually topped with pots and pans, behind which the kitchen staff stood, feeding us their muck. The rest of the hall was filled with several ... looking at each row, you could tell who was best friend with whom, because

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  won't bore you with the nitty gritty of training but gradually I ... chillax and then it was off to Disney World with Bianca (who registered for ... 's nothing quite like a week long trip to Disney World with no work hanging

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  Engineering with Computer Science) sophomore. I’m from Colorful Colorado, with ... living at home with my parents, many of my communities were already defined ... ’t true anymore. There is, frankly, nothing there with much certainty, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  last two trips i went on match up with lyrics from You're So Vain by ... with no distractions of cameras or telescope, and I’d let myself be on ... of it and once I was satisfied, go back to the experiencing it with no

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  with it being brought up again and again, I think I should mention that ... understand the policies MIT makes on this, whether or not I agree with them ... determine how the test will correlate with future success at MIT (unlike CR

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  are always moments when you’re presented with a decision, and naturally ... touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.”    For me, I ... expressive choice of words when having a conversation with someone, I forget

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  until one day I sat with myself, looked inside, and realized I didn ... , actually   with this thread of hope, the next phase of healing begins ... spend time with friends instead of sinking into solitude. building up a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  soon as I unboxed them. The packaging was incredibly suspicious, with the ... light interact with a chemical, which can tell you things like which atoms ... before irradiating it with X-rays, and Raman spectroscopy would involve

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  someone steal the pedals off my bicycle Had ten other appointments with ... with classes (see above) [caption id="attachment_108513" align ... once. It started with an email to my academic advisor, then a phone call

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  motion-planning system uses inverse kinematics to maneuver the cups with ... coded this with the Python version of Drake, which can be used for ... his home planet. My professor had to read the whole thing with his own

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  ) [annotation note="I'm hosting this with my roommate! Come say hi and paint with ... to events with people I already knew, but I wish I had spent more time ... interested :)"   In short: have fun, come prepared with[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024