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• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... of a "normal" class. perhaps that deserves another blog post later

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real ... math. Let's back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background In ... analysis: 18.100A, 18.100B, 18.100P, and 18.100Q. A few things of note: i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  spending the night frantically studying in a Green building lounge, fueled by energy drinks and naps on a very cozy couch. The exam still went rather poorly, which by that point wasn't really a surprise. I could go into

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  would sacrifice my time now to get into a good college and then pursue my ... application process kinda messed me up and i'm still unlearning a lot of things ... the time I hit 30 and picked a few to work on during 2020. What follows

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  four times a week - Accomplished! I actually started becoming way more ... things. Maintain a 4.5/5.0 GPA - Accomplished! So this is kind of more ... Spanish) so my GPA doesn't really mean much. Get a summer internship

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet ... 've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  Square a lot more than usual this past semester. Despite not dual-enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development!) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  First, a semantic distinction. When does a "day” truly begin? Does it ... moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  a snazzy graphic.     21W.758, normally a genre fiction class with a variable focus, would become a comic script workshop for this ... wrote a post about the class earlier this semester with a very similar

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II). And you might conclude a few things about my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a ... 'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... horizon. Dim Sum! If you're ever mind-numbingly bored enough to pop open a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... shinier, more manageable hair. But I spent a little more time with it, on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not ... blah.) Since I know a lot of people will be needing to make a college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb ... need...........hydrogen." "Hydrogen?" "Yeah, hydrogen. And soda. And a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... student/person/wizard/etc. for only pursuing a single major. Do what makes you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research ... to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can't name, I open up a blank Wordpress file and start typing. It barely feels

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do a dual blog post about our CPW experiences - hers as an excited prefrosh, and mine as a jaded East Campus CPW chair. The Build-Up [Ankita

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  /or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my ... that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022