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  Classes—Fall 05

  

  on Central Park in New York City. eventual material: Some of the future ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14 ... : We have sections on family labor and standard of living in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  new freshman at a ...certain liberal arts school on the other end of ... On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... a space on East Campus' strip of paper spanning the entire length of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  catch up on months of missed Reddit, I turned it towards the long queue ... actually a painting of Escher's that's on the door to the room in Zeta Psi ... working for a company necessarily comes with a set of constraints on your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  new lesson learned, the new insight gained comes on the heels of overt ... A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... depressing read, although Foer does find several new (to me) ways of expressing ... of Foer's old tricks, and his new ones weren't so impressive--it often

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2012! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art ... Wednesday, we elected our new floor chairs and spent a lot of time together as ... knowing that I’d be leaving earlier than most of the people on the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  for a part of a second.  There are lights on the left and right sides of the gameboard that go on when Alex finishes.  We also practised ... new MIT Solar Car, so I'm not actually sure being on Jeopardy! even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  person today has potentially more impact on society than the President of ... . Lou proposes a new system that takes advantage of modern technology, a ... . We need to become conscious of our environment and potential impact on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  named new dean of admissions March 24, 2008 Stuart Schmill SB '86 has been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... 's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  administration earlier this year on behalf of our international students, defended ... millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... walking around -- probably some of the most brilliant people on the face of ... classes on my fall schedule right now, a HASS (21M.223, Folk Music of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  academia aesthetic of a train on a grey-skies-day. Five of us (myself, Kayode ... go on. The five of us hopped on the shuttle to wait for the others to ... still on. We are down to the final last three women, if that is of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... through the weekdays makes the weekends of lounging around on Friday and ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022