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  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to just email them and not post on a blog :) " Thanks, Fabrice, that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... went back to a classroom in building 4 and redid all of the midterms on ... Newbury Street and spend a not-good amount of money on new clothes, and then

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  's on the varsity volleyball team here. I remember I went to a game and I ... . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to-non-MIT-people-a ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  all the way to Madrid, buying a new cellphone, and trying to remember ... a wireless signal to your house and tell it to turn the heat back on ... for a two whole weeks. I have a room in Puerta del Sol, a new cell phone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... growing to like the new house. I would come to prefer it, with its proximity to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one-on ... , then go on to medical school and become a neurologist. In one very ... I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto ... ’d have to draw, or if they saw their home in a new light, with sharper ... outstretched to bless the crowd around her. It was painted on a scale larger than

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  research, MIT, and life in general. One digression led to a conversation on ... .03 Differential Equations professor always shows up to class with a huge smile on ... problems on our psets are designed to test problem solving skills, not just a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... to the new coordinates aware of the slowing of time due to the ripples on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to ... 't ready to live on my own; plus I had marching band commitments, which is ... was too scared to ask any MIT profs for favors (I am a huge chicken

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  place, socializing, trying to figure out a good routine. I'm working on ... 'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look ... 'll slip in a shout-out to good old Mac High--but here, things move fast. Too

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  slowing him down a whole lot. Skate skis are a lot easier to learn since ... ) (+Dohyun)”. While Andi seemed to be diligently take notes on the panel happening afterwards, I went back to my room to take a fat nap, having only

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house ... letters back to their MIT family. We tack them up on the wall in the kitchen ... towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  and staff who have agreed to take in a group of wide-eyed new cadets ... prepared you to dive headlong into the rigors of MIT, but on the other end of ... in that. Thankfully, you do have a wonderful resource available to you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  details on how you start a project to enter into an Intel fair? Do I just ... like a tourist. Photograph everything. Listen to new music Build ... other more meaningful questions to ponder: If a tree falls on a mime in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... , sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to make time for new passions, Struggling to find ever-elusive balance; pj

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... tearing my place apart, I could not find it, and I had days to order a new ... night after I called to order a new ring but no one picked up the phone, I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  pause on the world to let the emotions and struggles of a character ... MIT Activities Committee has a whole website dedicated to this."]you can ... . Anyways. Having seen Wicked, I’ve been inspired to finally get to a blog

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024