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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... -- whatever ... and when they get here, they feel an immense need to release ... -qualified enough to get into a top university, chances are he or she worked pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  caught up in racing to get all my work done this sophomore fall that for a ... the details on the Back to the Future hack and the MIT Zoo hack by ... Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following ... , so the report card was just for fun, but the serious question to ask is ... -walked along the Charles to put in some minutes for getfit@mit. I was happy to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  you are not all identical to me and what works for me won't necessarily ... minutes to get a snack, or walk around. I come back, and read what I wrote ... make me more embarrassed. All I wanted was for people to NOT SAY ANYTHING

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa ... ...," nor can I quantify the anxiety it evokes. I did a "senior sale" to get ... significance. I get stressed out if I'm not taking every opportunity to see my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  online from clover, then went to medical and got tested for covid again. it ... to move. i cleared my schedule for the day—not that there was anything ... time, i get acute vertigo, for example; a few times it's been bad enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  for the 3:20 flight before mine still waiting to get on their plane and ... name on my driver’s license is incorrect – I've been trying to get that ... time, I had to go in the longer, less efficient line for counter service

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  actually get two diplomas to show off at graduation (and to hang ... GIRs. For a single degree, a student has to accumulate 180 units outside ... just by completing the requirements for your major. For two degrees, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  protein bar for breakfast, getting to the testing room super early, and ... "]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me ... returned to me so far. I write up my psets for 8.022 and 18.701 Algebra I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road ... over to King Orchards. All the blueberries were picked for the season, and we didn't want to pick prickly raspberries, so we went for the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  're getting your footing, it's not a requirement by any means. It's not a ... embarrass you or for you to wear around your head like a crown, grades are a ... 't worry about your grades, it's an opportunity for you to figure out what it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... school are getting married. It's a weird thing to be a female scientist in ... short for me to see into the eyepiece. And all the coats in the mouse room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... close enough to the truth for the purposes of this entry.) 3. Applicants ... to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... , smiling very uncomfortably and waiting for the scene to play out. The man

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... serving. I haven't been yet, but I'm going to save a trip there for a ... impromptu decided to go on a skiing trip (in New Hampshire??) with Next House

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... incredibly difficult to make work correctly, so we abandoned it for a much ... was to get that solution after all the design and iteration we had, but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  looked like. We can't include the code for the function we used to get ... could get from this data set, we decided it would be cool to pick certain ... we filtered the data to get all the variations of "aahhhh." To get all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  Jaekyung listening to comedy programs in six different languages (as rated by his friends). The video shows his reactions to the programs. For most ... —both because it's wonderful to see an MIT undergraduate doing art (and for fun

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I ... live with thermo by my side. Then I spend so many nights getting all the ... morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... environmental groups are trying to halt plans for more canal expansions because ... 0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005