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  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  eloquent take on JLab. So yeah, last fall I took 8.13 (aka Experimental ... devoting to this class on a weekly basis. The majority of MIT classes are 12 ... lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... BULLETS for Joe Checkelsky!!! When I hopped on the Zoom, I saw this kind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  general rationing problem in which some people must lose out on what is ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... if we extend the situation to an unequal loss of lives depending on the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  what it's like to be an admissions officer on the road. Tuesday ... Beverly Hills and went to bed on East Coast time. Wednesday, September 3nd ... we pick which schools to visit on any given trip lies in that strange

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also ... : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... sharpener, also from Max. Paint I got on my desk while painting my room at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  than basically everything I've ever posted on this page, so I ... MIT admissions. Also, on a personal note, I've unwittingly entrenched ... on a personal blog, but also for the admissions blogs in the hopes that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  reason why it took so long was because the orgo reactions on my 5.111 pset ... better than I expected on the physics test, so everything was worth it in the end. (thanks for all your well-wishing on the last entry too! you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  ... Anonymous asked, "are you definitely coming to South Miami, FL on Sept 11 then ... of other spots). 2. On the section where you list AP courses, can I ... answers: 1. You have a couple options. You could put two semester courses on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  cause of... [goes on rant regarding public transit and Robert Moses ... .   5/6/23Same class as earlier! I asked a question on Piazza ... in about a month for an internship, so I was reading up on Sound

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  diner on Mass Ave near MIT, with the twist that everything they serve is ... [/annotation]), but it is actually very decent on the inside. My order: A vegan ... best restaurants on this list. My order: "Non-alcoholic milk beer" (a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  with the sesame paste on top. For a few hours I felt the city move and I ... large tower looking down on the world, an edge jutting out into the sky ... rest (but in due time). So again I walked across the city on my worn feet

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  blogs on MARC, it's MIT's Microsystems Annual Research Conference where we ... with the average broke-college-student budget. Andi and I were both on ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] i drew this on my phone[/caption] Skiing! I missed the

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

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Vassar with my roommate, I was appalled to hear he missed out on the ... modern feminist movements is something I cannot comment on nor relate to ... and unavoidable reflections on how I’ve been feeling once again. So

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  put up on classroom walls? They always summer, fall, winter, and spring ... capturing what’s iconic about the season, whether that’s the sun shining on a ... leaves and continue on their merry way. But it’s not just the cherry

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  still on campus, however, we do have two things to help us cope—✨the power ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of ... , Friday, and Sunday! So, on one Sunday in October, eight or so of my friends

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was ... thickets of trees. Vast expanses of green, morning dew accumulating on ... -wing blackbirds which move as a hive, settling on fields and turning an entire acre

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about ... had to go to that info session, I had to meet new people, I had to go on ... . But in doing so, I was losing out on a lot of depth. This semester I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  was falling quickly now. Uber didn’t work so I called one on the phone ... hair is white. He drives more aggressively with stick on tiny winding ... 100-km loop around the Kerry Road on the first Sunday of July, when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  a high-paying job and then, life will be okay. and so on. there has ... up,  when i walk on grass,  i will feel feeble melancholy, who would ever walk on roses,   when i walk past the field, i will walk in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  enjoy. So, to reflect on that reading, here's some mini-reviews of ... ’ve spent my fair share of time on Tumblr as a teen, and I went through a dark ... time to read it. Turns out, I’m still the same person that grew up on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023