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  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  My approximate CPW schedule Thursday liveblog 8:55am: I arrive on ... ." Prof. Drennan: "You will never do an acid-base titration at MIT." Goes on to give examples on MIT chemistry research. Prof. Tim Jamison's lab can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... last bid to say goodbye. But what if you held off on all that? Sounds ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM - I wake up. Come on, there was a party ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches ... our two-hour set? What if we both sounded like bumbling idiots on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... deter her career. "Some people don't make as much of an impact on things ... direct information traffic on the Internet -- earned her the nickname

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question ... due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... water (...I hope) when I turn the faucet on high to fill a glass, but the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period ... lottery, he stated that he was going to die if he didn't live on 3rd East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  voracious reader, so I snuck it out of her room and read it. And loved it. On ... other factors going against me. I was dead-set on attending Ohio State ... National Merit scholar, so I knew I'd have to do really well on the PSAT. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  home from MIT on Saturday, 3/14/2020, after getting kicked off of campus ... ’ll all look back on this period in time. How the pain, the anger, the fear will be remembered. How I’ll look back on it all. Who even knows how long

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... , one urinal, and two toilets, and as 80 people have offices on that floor

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  weekly readings and labs. The labs are typically my biggest assignment on ... any questions that may arise. Additionally, 20% of your grade on each ... code. Right now, we’re working on coding up n-dimensional Micesleeper (a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  *puts on CMS hat* I LOVE watching media analysis video essays ... every video essay that exists on Youtube, dissecting the underlying ... the discussion is on media that I don’t personally consume (ex. family

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  . The music video is also very fun to watch. I think the love songs on ... ) every day. The love songs on this album called Lover are, of course, all ... AGAAAAINNN. I have heard a lot of hate on The Man, You Need To Calm Down and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... vendors) get on the big screen try the festival beer ride on someone ... was the in band emblems on shirts. Silver chains and rings — on ears

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... ; if you’re curious, you can find the other readings on the course site linked above before we go on, i should mention that the replication crisis

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my ... 't really see a lot of emails on the eecs side, especially after i muted ... on your phone. It was nice—and it honestly helped dispel a few worries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways ... Twists  I didn’t think twists would work on my hair because I thought it ... uneven, mind your business😌😌😌. The falsies were hard to put on, and I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details ... grasp on the concepts to follow my professor's explanation. Cosmology! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020