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  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  classes only meet twice a week for 1.5 hours, which is new for me since my ... Friday (🎉🎉🎉), but then I have to give my full attention for 1.5 hours ... really easy for the first hour, and then there's a bunch of really hard new

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  had written "Come Together" as a campaign song for Leary! Getting sucked ... a new understanding and appreciation for the music I'd been hearing ... for "Norwegian Wood" (thanks to a strange obsession with Haruki Murakami

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  get to glimpse my innermost(ish) thoughts. And by you, I mean the entire ... things changed - but definitely by mid-February or so, I wanted to get into ... the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  major for almost a semester, and still plan to take more physics courses ... “for sure course 18 theoretical” to “eh, maybe 8 also,” to “11?” and is ... over topics of conversation for when y’all come to visit in the East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  plan and cooking for myself, so I’m trying to get a really good idea of ... said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who ... little contribution, and I have since modified and added to it for the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  ; Coming from New York, I had always been used to having a great music scene ... constant opportunities to be exposed to new music in all kinds of genres. So ... by live music to my ears is definitely a pleasant reminder of home. But

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  previous posts. Essentially, I worked on a new way to obtain precise ... Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  2006! :-) B. P.S. A big thanks to Timur for the Santa Banners on Matt ... I'm outa here until Monday, January 2 and I won't be able to respond to email or blog comments until that time, so I just wanted to wish you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  ="currently, the question is 'what is to be done?'"]a new question each week for ... equipment to cook with. I initially planned to cook for all of IAP. This ... also really enjoy cooking with other people since usually I get to make a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 ... up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... to be easy, especially for a Division III, M.I.T. player," he said ... there for me." In the meantime, Bartolotta hopes to carry M.I.T. to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to ... have to do "rehearsals" for our oral presentations, either on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... brain switches to a new task, however menial, it takes a certain amount of ... . [annotation note="I got distracted for a full 20 minutes while trying to find

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... that I needed to get around 80% on the remaining three psets to pass. For ... ’s never too late to get back on track for a class Don’t let yourself fall

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... loved getting to know over the course of IAP! Maya and I worked together ... restaurant. It was challenging to get onboarded, learn background information

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend of Feb 5!! Go to our website for more info: alumweb ... seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  hero. We'll give him a few days to grow and then we'll get some pics up here. MAD props to Stu for saving the pact. ... agony of yesterday's events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  two. We played rock band in 10-100 together (enough to get rock band ... Earlier this month we launched one of our new admissions videos ... . The credits in the video say simply "created with love by many people at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  hospital and at home in New York. I had to miss my final classes for recovery, but thanks to Student Support Services it is all getting figured out ... the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... about their own approach to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018