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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on ... words, I don’t have to spend that much time outside of class on homework ... .006 - Intro to Algorithms: I’m taking this class on Sophomore Exploratory (one

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... put the finishing touches on my final HST.426 project (the same one I was working on at 3am the night before). The four of us make last minute

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It ... hurt my foot. The story this time is that I went on a camping trip with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  three different paint jobs. Today, I put sunflowers on the windowsill, and ... summer I’ve ever had, so I’ll tell you a little bit about it. On my last ... in half. Everyone on the streets looks powerful under the white lights

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  doesn't feel too powerful at first but once you have a lot stored on ... were on Spotify. A huge part of Spotify is being able to make and share ... on everything you do. Use this app to track your day and see how much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  all the material from recitation or from the online video lectures on ... far too undermotivated to watch the video lectures on my own. Now, 8 ... .012 grades started dropping accordingly. I struggled to hit 70% on homework

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .901, Professor Scott Hughes kept us on a sprint through a wild variety of topics on ... , black holes, and so on. This semester, we're diving deep into a larger ... accordingly. It's hands-on, and has me rethinking a lot of my own older

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

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  that weekend and are still interested in traveling" - and on Friday April ... grad students excited to teach. Kids excited to learn on a weekend ... on their kid taking all the classes he or she wants to take (trust me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  genuine. I'm so happy that he is on the faculty of a place like MIT. Hearing ... dragged me out of my lab reports. The following costumes were assembled on ... if they found out I put this on the internet, so these goobers are

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  335, the wonderful lounge-side 5-room on the 290-side third floor. My ... favorite things in my room. On the left wall above (click for a larger view) and on the upper left below is the painting my amazing then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  settling on my final topic. I asked myself if there is one person I could ... together nicely with the theme. Speech = Done! On the day of the qualifying ... international readers) February day in Boston. I got on my bike and just explored

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and ... hinge solely on one's ability to recapitulate concepts from the reading ... lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , who viewed me as a potentially embarrassing statistic on their otherwise ... . Perhaps it hadn’t. From the day they started preschool, they had been on ... than a summer break to pause, to think, to reflect on what they were

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  're tired and struggling to keep your eyes open and your focus on this pset ... on the other side of the wall is developing an indoor autonomous quad ... emails between 6:09 PM and 7:46 PM on Tuesday evening about Obama visiting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid ... time than most questions I encounter on an hourly basis. I started to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  Insurance Plan, and except for a semesterly figure on my tuition bill, that ... click on the link, i'll spell it out for you. FPI is $22,050 for a family ... very, very little money for a family). Adding on to this is the fact

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... , let's focus on one experience from this last year, a choice I keep ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of ... exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up ... and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  : I spent as much on textbooks this semester as I spent on food*. And ... money this semester was spent on water (contained in fruits, vegetables ... stores on Massachusetts Avenue north of MIT instead of at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my ... system into booting into the recovery partition on my hard drive even

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009