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FAQ / Academics and research
Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?
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Blog / MIT Life
A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.
I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the -
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Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.
before I graduate I want to show you more of these places I love, starting with Beacon St. and Marlborough St., which run parallel to the water on ... -containing street parallel to the water and Marlborough St. is the next one over -
Blog / MIT Life
5E Rush Photos
decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... and head-scratching, because we were able to put them to good use. Also ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though -
Blog / Academics & Research
anatomy of a hell week do not try at home
let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday, i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to -
Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English
Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned
as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... , dedicated to providing professional and academic opportunities and resources -
Blog / Academics & Research
Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.
Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in our suite lounge. Once Sam finally went to bed around 3:00, I was able -
Blog / Academics & Research
February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus
’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE ... .0001: Introduction to Python Six triple O fun Is brainwashing you to join The cult of ... Now on to the athlete part. This past week has featured some pretty -
Blog / MIT Life
NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.
interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day -
Blog / Admissions
Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.
I have multiple things to admit here. 1. My arms kind of hurt from ... thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went to Harvard Square for ice cream tonight. 3. I'm not feeling -
Blog / MIT Life
Post-wedding update
to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate ... , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... progressing Mandarin studies, and he pointed me to his new OpenCourseWare 21F -
Blog / Admissions
Scholarships
applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships ... to win some. When I was in my last year of high school, I was pretty -
Blog / Uncategorized
Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat
months furiously writing and rewriting their personal essays to [annotation ... those personal essays. I recall really having to dig down deep into what ... continue to learn more as you finish up your application process! To help -
Blog / Academics & Research
Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets
.033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... amusing excerpts with you. Enjoy! (The point of the problem was to show ... linearly at relativistic speeds.) (Again, the problem was to prove -
Blog / Community Projects
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…
, decided to welcome her return with a nice poster: And a few ballons ... ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get -
Blog / MIT Life
Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!
I used to play Pokemon. I won't lie. One could possibly say that ... decided that she wants to catch them all with her camera this summer; I ... . However, I did not wear a duck tape tuxedo to my prom. Maybe I'll go to the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.
Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to ... want to see it differently this time. Also, the opportunity to travel during Independent Activities Period (IAP) is pretty hard to resist. It -
Blog / MIT Life
The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.
witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two-hour food coma immediately after dinner, I think it's pretty safe to say that I emerged victorious. I wanted to turn the turkey carcass into usable