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  A lot about course 9

  

  up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come ... link to the new building. Perhaps I will take some later this week ... -40 undergrads per class year in course 9, although I think that number has been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up until today, I've procrastinated about selecting a HASS class for next semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  so our air conditioner thinks it's outside. I love engineers ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask... how are the professors? I know you always have your good ones and your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  ;   As I wrote when we admitted them: These 1419 students are truly ... -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly ... I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  The young kids are now the age I thought I’d be when I thought I’d be old (I’m not): the people running REX events are the people REX was for when I ran REX events (still not). This year I get to experience R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  required readings, and I am enjoying a breezy carefree summer. I have sadly ... catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... decisions were not easy. If you applied and didn’t make it this year, I highly recommend trying again next summer. I got in as a sophomore, the second time I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  Earlier today I read Michael Lewis' remarkable remarks at the ... path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  . I know, I know, you're probably going crazy right now - real live ... 's almost like we're not crippled by our social awkwardness! I may be being a ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours ... wanderlust, I metaphorically sprained my ankle over the fact that brilliant ... -esque contortions, I will sell more bottles of highlighter-colored water than anyone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  energy drink 1 energy drink water thing 5 cups of coffee I slept 5 hours ... a funny story that I'll share shortly). So, from the beginning: I ... night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  are planning to cover their own dorms within the next z days!), I am ... TechCash. By which I mean your parents can pay for it. MacGregor also ... by letter -- A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and J -- and there's no I Entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  Doctor Russ. Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance, a grad student I ... became, uh... Doctor Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance. I guess that's what ... what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005