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  A typical first semester more or less

  

  impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... decided to skip 18.022 lecture on a whim to go to CVS with my friend to pick up her meds. Is skipping 18.022 generally a bad idea? Probably. But to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  until yesterday morning, and even then I almost passed out a few times. As of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a ... get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  I've really really loved my schedule this year so I thought I'd do a ... talk about my classes for a while but lacked the motivation for it! 8 ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench, a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of ... . The Rush Chairs commence a speech. We are getting better at cleaning up

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a ... those kids that would hide somewhere for six hours with a thick book

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... follows the same schedule, here is a look back on last Friday. 8:37 - My ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  post (and for maybe any post; the last few months have been either a ... , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a ... a pretty cool program that MIT runs every year (biannually, I think

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I start the post, I write a few sentences, and then within a day or two, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... a class (Harmony and Counterpoint I) and added another class (Harmony ... obscene expensiveness of staff paper* and made a pear salad and harmonized a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just ... Boston has a bunch of random little quirks about it that nobody but a ... mentioned a couple of songs. I believe her words were: "If you're going to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and ... ; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year ... classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  Sometimes, I receive e-mails from prospective students. I posted a batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... seriously considering it as a career path. However, I don't know whether I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or ... if by correcting our mistakes. It's a nice feature. Tuesday: I had a 7 ... wondering. Wednesday: The weekly 18.310 problem set was due. It had a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  content warning: mental health, trauma 1   I've been in a funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous ... have been actively building up a portfolio of technically creative stuff ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  This summer at nerd camp, I heard about a band called The Pipettes. I ... me some credit, people - I'm not that big of a nerd, although I do ... my window at work and my window at home.) Last September, I started a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008