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  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... (very, very important) just the fact that you’re not at home anymore and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  , but I'm sure at least a few of you will have the same difficult choice ... May. Spoiler alert, we were not back by May. At some point in April, it ... . At some point in this time period, rumors of what MIT's fall plans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... replace it with "better" foods. I also wanted to try my hand at baking since ... to try my hand at an omelette. After watching Binging with Babish

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... -years take"]8.01 [/annotation] tutoring, but I haven’t even looked at the Pset

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was going to go to school for chemical engineering, since I was ~good at ... prepare a poster for the poster session at the end of the summer, but I didn

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at the massive tent ... Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... , aimed at interweaving disciplines offered at the Institute with computing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  scavenged metal from a scrap metal yard (3:02). She’s a mentor at a makerspace ... ’t just add another leg at the droopy part because that was supposed to be ... together the oven in the courtyard. Even with the extra leg at the droopy

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... science and religion at odds with one another. Nor was this an idea that was ... what was a stirring contemporary issue at the time: the worry about

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  occasional bout of boredom at work. And hence, I discovered the magic of ... I'm at MIT. Lone Digger by Caravan Palace - This song vaguely ... empty classrooms very late at night during second semester when I was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  . Last summer, I did MISTI Jordan, working at a pharmaceutical company ... treasured moments (sprawled on the pitch black sand in Wadi Rum, gazing at ... ), and the wild moments (like being stranded at a border and having a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  , maybe because of it I’ll one day be gr8 at optimizing stuff, but for now ... at it though--I haven’t really committed to anything beyond the usual ... class...probably could have at least a 0.3 or more higher GPA ^^; (look at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  time at the Johnson Arena from 8-9:30a every morning, so that's been ... . Here's me at one of the club's rinks, with the ice all to myself--one of ... bookings. I then grabbed dinner at Applebee's, just right behind the hotel

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  your tastes at Senior House. And if you can’t peg yourself on this either ... things not held equal. We might first look at demographic factors, as it is ... , action targeted at the dorm itself is worthless, especially the problems

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... , Street-Fighting Mathematics, at the MIT Press (read the book here ... flux over a slice of the Earth to arrive at the same answer with a one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... art adventures at MIT?” What I thought I heard: “how many pretty ... worked out really well… for freshman fall at least. Everyone should spend

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Los Angeles, and I can’t wait to spend Thanksgiving with my family. At ... early (late?) 6:00 at MIT is. As I made the familiar trek past Mac ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won ... speech events, which I was actually much better at. I did this for four

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of ... to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... that all tend to release within several days of each other. At this point

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  week. (Your mileage may vary: I'm looking at you, 6.115.) The ... cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014