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  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  pencil to work out more than a fifth of a problem. The grind started Tuesday evening with a breakdown in Walker Memorial, and when I got back, I ... I was slowing down. I got distracted quite a bit, but still managed to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  the first Festival here. This post is the second of a series of three ... . This post is just a fraction of the fascinating information I absorbed at ... , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Harvard. It was a wonderful course, with fascinating readings and ... the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  Ex[/annotation] and get a tutorial lecture, in a sense. On Wednesday, the group would ... , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a ... area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  this class since it's a class I'm obligated to take rather than one I'd like to take. That being said, I did originally apply to MIT as a ... requirements for 6-3 and honestly a class I've been dreading for quite a while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally, I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but ... during the school year because I have no time. As a result, I have a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  private tutorials. The attendance in school is a formality. As a result, the ... 've become a bit behind in answering your comments. It's been nearly two months ... won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  's gone through many, many forms, from 5 classes and a UROP to 5 classes and two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would look kind of gross to first-day-of-fall-semester me, a prospective Course

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  some puzzles, which will be marked. Organizing this post was a pain, because the experience of writing a hunt involves so many different things ... Hunt What is a puzzlehunt? Top-level organization Design goals

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR simultaneously is a blessing and a curse -- it takes the pressure off of work much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... Netherlands. EnergyHack began Friday night with a few speeches and an unveiling

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  A: god it's already new year's eve B: yeah there's still some people around campus A: i mean we're around B: no like B: other people B: doing work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Run Godspeed

  

  Have a good time. Click

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend ... hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke ... of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... 'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly ... bashed in by the Big Rock Tribe." Thus begins a wonderful book by Dave

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a ... an entirely new continent (whoop, whoop there more to go). There’s a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019