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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  too much. Taken on top of a UROP and my extracurriculars, I definitely ... the fall, though. On one hand, the fall should have been easy because of ... ridiculously hard or ridiculously easy depending on you previous level of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  time goes on- so even though there's plenty of room for improvement, I ... pictures of teddy bears on them that said "Hug me, I donated blood today" but ... = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time ... 've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in between the kerning of those letters, everything is hiding.) I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  event was put on by the Division of Student Life and was a welcoming of ... ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... strange restlessness. The restlessness of living on the edge of great change ... blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  . This, I never picked up on, because throughout the last 1/3 of the class ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  MIT campus sits on the side of the Charles River, and the sororities and ... later on. You could find free dinners at a lot of the frats, snack ... were designing some type of robot and were focusing on one aspect of it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  more than most people take here. Especially on top of being the ... much. ‘Nuf said. And of course there are other things I missed out on ... second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  note="2nd West, one of East Campus' 10 living communities"](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the rain that sort of derailed our plans. I hadn't been camping since high

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  orchard on recommendation by one of the employees. I skipped ahead and ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday, when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  good. And breathe. Slow inhale on a count of four, hold for a count of four, exhale on a count of four. Repeat twice more. You’re gonna be okay ... released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  different. For me, I spend the mass majority of my time on my Physics and Real ... something up on the day of the test. I thought I was going to forget a ... never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  . Adam Riess, MIT Class of 1992, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011 Riess ... Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  . The schedule can be viewed here. One of the interesting shows on WMBR ... " * John Cale - "Fear" * Eno - "Baby's On Fire" * Shivaree - "The Fat Lady of ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  the understanding of dance I've developed from being on a team for a ... I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  to pick classes. Questions about dorms On my marathon tour of Mac ... promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... one major, it's not as difficult -- you can pretty much plan on taking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of ... calculations to derivate the coefficient of friction on complex surfaces and sum

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009