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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - that I will blog more this year. It's a promise to myself as much as it's a promise to all of you - I want to make sure my senior year doesn ... presentations. I have my first presentation this week, and I have to talk about a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1.5 hours Recitation: Once a week for 1 hour Problem Sets: 8, not graded Exams: 4, graded Final Exams: 0 This class is also taught by three different

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you ... certification (I'm now a certified EMT in the state of Massachusetts, which makes ... So supposedly, there's a weather machine that comes around every CPW

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 ... pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well ... Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2 ... data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or ... , there is a goal, the destination to your journey. There is no winning path

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer ... opportunity for many of you to attend spring meetings hosted by ECs and alumni ... learned a lot at the spring meeting I attended and had a great chance to get

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  us. If your team wants to reserve a room (or more) through the official registration system, you MUST REGISTER BY DECEMBER 15. If you do not want a room, we strongly encourage you to register by then anyway, but will accept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... their ranks, since he knew every word to every song) -- it's always a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class ... 's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More details about this semester's line-up to come; I would write a more detailed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to ... -date and to be patient as we process thousands of documents. By not calling ... : We have received 18,064 total applications, a 1% increase over last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  wielding academic language to dress up a platitude. This isn’t to say that ... misled by fluff masquerading as insight. A lot of truth is ugly, a lot of truth doesn’t adhere to a brand image or a poetic phrase or whatever else

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... on the path to starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a ... obligations and a near-empty campus. It’s pretty cool to be able to focus ... , Boston looked like this: It had snowed just enough to make everything

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  department as a whole. 3.091: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry Taught by ... Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... longer. I don't think I've ever quite emptied a tube of toothpaste to this ... went to rehearsal for the final project in dance, played in a badminton

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map ... . On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I presented my research as a poster, was judged by various graduate school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A ... line. A nice man gave me a form to fill out and pointed me to a nice lady

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011