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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  , GEL students are challenged to make their internships a more meaningful experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury ... from Newbury St. all the way to Haymarket. It was a lovely day--a bit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  used it mainly to get a second machine opinion on the sentiment of each ... , which is a measure of sentiment ranging from -1 to 1 calculated by taking ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful, because I was surrounded by people who wanted to see me fail. This dynamic ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... stuff -- there's almost always a way to get what you want. 2. Curious Freshman wrote, Are professors rated by students? Is there a way to see the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a ... technique to get to an answer. It's been pretty stressful, not gonna lie. Yet ... 's interesting! The process of getting to an answer is grueling, but figuring out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  whoever you see." Conner 2 is lucky to have a roof that's accessible from ... (I tried to place myself into the mindset of a war reporter, covering ... into Conner 4, which was blocked. A small packet proceeded to the 5th

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  dope! Keep in mind that it tends to get a bit crowded on weekends (for ... I went to the pond, my boyfriend and I stopped by a place called Moozy ... the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  course in probability and/or statistics, so you might as well get a head start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 ... 't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals ... guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism ... artisans spoke mainly to him. Three stalls down, I remembered that this was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting ... having something of a get-together. It was just my aunt's family, a couple of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  when familiar stories help me get through change. If I had to pick a non ... use my promo code “Hi, I’d like to get a library card!” to start ... LIBRARY! If you like audiobooks, consider getting a FREE library card at the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  this fall. I was lucky enough to get an offer from a company called ... and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to ... 've ever been, and I'm sure they'll only get harder. :( But I got to spend

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a ... lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists ... mailing lists that only see use for a semester, others that get used for a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  a scooter to get around; my freshman year, I just walked everywhere ... described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to ... of them. i came into mit wanting to be a 14-2 (mathematical economics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  , you have to agree with the professor's solution in order to get the A ... first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... getting hit up for cash by the 'tute is not the central theme of this entry

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... implications of winning the majority of individual votes--by a sizable margin at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  Frogger without even batting an eyelash. Please try not to get hit by a car ... into the wilderness on your own, but after a few rides, you start to get ... walk back across the Harvard Bridge to get to my apartment. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014