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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  , working out how to compute integrals on my own or creating new methods of ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... , and spends most of his time framing houses. He used to come home from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of ... beginning of the year, recruiting impressionable freshmen who want to get

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... , who wanted to bring back the grand old hacks of the past. In honor of ... six stories onto Amherst Alley from the roof of Baker House. [How To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  multiplies the list of ingredients by whatever fraction necessary to feed the ... - planning events, brainstorming ways to make the events better, that kind of ... Club One of my friends from my summer research program goes to BU, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  used to. They'll really force you to have a deeper understanding of what ... academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on ... significant time at all. "They're already on number 4 out of 5" I said to myself

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  "]A[/annotation] few days ago, my Google Calendar returned to its pre-exile state, aka ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... campus in fall, so we're in the middle of hunting for a place to live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  viral, and, some speculate, was the start of a domino effect that led to ... .” The results of the Uber fiasco empowered many other women to come forth ... ’s encouraging to see some form of justice occurring, and to hear about an uprising

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  't need to get ready tomorrow morning. So what final details of my freshman ... new stuff and forgot a lot of old stuff. I'm really looking forward to working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW ... 're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... experience leads to a smaller proportion of the time it took to gain that ... experiencing life faster and faster. (This website has a great visualization of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  website, and I did not like what I read. There seems to be a lot of writing ... were limited to working a certain number of hours per week. Actually ... Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... supervision system is considered to be the highlight of the Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  cart of materials to build my tank. My initial idea was to use me and my ... lot simpler than it actually was. Took me forever to nudge the slates of ... had began to float out of the gravel it was buried under since I hadn

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  it to class, which is just across the road and up a flight of stairs ... , I also need to get into at least one, and some of the classes have ... , and, eventually, all five of us are talking to each other, wondering

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  mindset. But as I've been home in quarantine, I've had a lot of time to ... think they're cool." In an effort to help him find some sort of direction ... this book of recipes in my head, trying to figure out what elements and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  than voice parts in which case you are forced to ignore some of the ... ohms. arranging here refers to the process of taking a song and turning ... the process of taking a song and trying to recover its original

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... south yet. But thanks to the concerted efforts of a few dedicated people ... was the Peasants. I went with some of my Next House neighbors to Harvard

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how ... ever go to nationals, yet the memories themselves: of our weekly practices, of our trip to the local competition, at the attempt towards an

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  first, I had to draft a syllabus, including a list of pre-requisites, a ... Metric Spaces. Then, I had to prepare. Over the course of the two weeks ... class website. Okay to be perfectly honest, I took the basic outline for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  and keep track of all the forces on each sphere. To simulate the cloth ... of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020