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  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... . With this one notwithstanding, I've covered 9 categories over 11 posts - but somehow, I've left out the classes I've taken as a freshman. Let me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back ... prior to MIT. Jenn: I began playing piano at the age of four. Of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  ? I swear that’s the last time I’ll ask, mostly because very soon CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life-changing event I wished I’d registered for but missed the deadline because I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... Court. It was due to this decision that I spent an hour and a half of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the entries about the Brass Rat and Premiere/Delivery, but I think I'm just ... fools and I make up the 2012 RingComm. We have been seeing each other a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  midterms! Although I'm technically only taking 4 classes this term, I had ... . Although the Spanish and Bio went fine, I'm pretty sure that the Orgo exam ... classes that I'm taking this semester (7.05 - biochemistry - technically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start ... reasonable, like this: I stress eventually . I think that if anyone understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  joking. I am not. I immediately decided that my life's goal (previously ... television shows. Currently, no one I have spoken to about this idea has approved. I'm just trying to make everyone feel better about themselves

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  As you begin your MIT application and other college applications, I thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of my colleagues are still asleep - they deserve it! I'm sitting here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my ... 's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I ... -lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... -Conner front desk, which I then lost when I came upstairs. Obviously, God reads ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write embarassing things about them, I do respect their privacy, so names will not be ... of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... pronounces what we know as H20 as "woodur." Too bad I don't have a sound ... picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the ... , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... Shana once said, I like excerpts. They're like snapshots of some element ... window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  recognizes and governs MIT's student groups. I love that students have so much power of self-governance here! [full disclosure: I am a former officer of ... , which was held in the Johnson Athletic Center. When I arrived, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Look at these pictures I drew in class from my lecture notes this semester

  

  [caption id="attachment_83529" align="aligncenter" width="550"] belugas actually don't have dorsal fins but uhhhh who cares[/caption] [caption id="attachment_83530" align="aligncenter" width="768"] i found out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 15, 2022