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  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was ... trip!" - said by my professor after he had to exit his building due to a ... . "Oh my god something's on fire!!! Aaaand let's do E&M" - To be fair

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming ... antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , be managing my time better? am i not doing enough? my day slips by ... going to be okay regardless, so worrying about these things—especially as ... ’d force myself to be cognizant of every “wasted” second; eventually, i gave

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  friend’s at (and soon to be at) MIT who I already miss. Since this ... Boston from Virgina Beach… by way of Atlanta. While displacment is a ... forbidden hint) to be taking pictures. For example, during the GBIS A

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  at MIT. Hopefully. Too good to be true? That's what I thought. There ... for it being late. Also, I thought it was hilarious that I had to write ...  about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  Today, two quick items I've recently seen on the web (more substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  , wanting so badly to be remembered, I couldn't have cared less that he was ... if I haven't experienced everything. I want to be an engineer 1/100th ... never been to them that I can think of them this way: means of a better

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  generated by ChatGPT (for example) tends to be fairly generic and plain ... prompted students to think about human writing in new ways. There are ... will be presenting writing as their own that they did not produce. To be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  the way people live their lives in the future. It’s going to be a long ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here ... rather how to solve "problems caused by the language". Sorry, that was too

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  way better than being decided. Come to your friends’ student group ... change. It can be scary or liberating. Either way, try to call them at ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  . Cummings and, after explaining that I was going to be be in Cambridge during the summer, asked if she would be willing to let me visit her lab. To ... particular, I really enjoyed being able to talk to the undergraduate students

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have turned out if I’d gone to Harvard. (I think I’m glad I didn’t, I think I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  that being an introvert is necessarily bad (check out Quiet by Susan Cain ... friends can't be that hard. All you have to do is say hi, shake hands, and ... decided I'd have to trick it into social interaction by giving it chances to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  crowd lining up all the way out to the building 56 Athena cluster ... 3: (HAYDEN gets beaten to a pulp by SAMUEL L. JACKSON) MALE AND ... transporting someone from point A to B very quickly. But I'm going to do it with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  that’s the way it has to or should be: I still make an effort to balance ... route to a familiar place or stopping by the Maseeh 3 lounge on my way ... science class I’ve taken since high school, and I couldn’t be happier to be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  to be more elation, more joy, and more optimism as I looked toward the ... I continued to wallow in what seemed to be my final moments with my ... could be when I didn’t have to drag myself out of bed to them to attend

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  . Winston links to. Enjoy! Always Moving Forward by Professor Patrick ... a school defined by numbers. Everything, from the buildings to the ... . Academics has to be your No. 1 goal here. If it's just football, you're going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  attention to the ideas, or A* search algorithms from 6.01 that I was too busy ... rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is

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

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  different ways to use them. You will not get the answers only by guessing ... now, and the answer-finding way is made to be fun. 😌 Also, type 2 fun ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... were chosen by a Commission on Presidential Scholars. They will be feted ... Published: Monday, May. 22, 2006 By DAVID BROOKS / Nashua Telegraph At right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006