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  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in ... working on my Political Science thesis, which is an original research

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  It is currently 5:26am and even though I really truly definitely ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different ... this blogpost. There is nothing concrete or urgent preventing me from

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  true that the workload is somewhat lower than it is during the cycle, but summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... an automation engine (think IFTTT, but for your phone) and there is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... ’m hoping that this is all worth it because I came here to build myself into ... with him. That is absolutely one of my biggest regrets. That job led to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  sleep per night: 7 hours and 1 minute   This number is a lot higher than I thought it would be, which is a good thing. Sleep is important ... is a brief list of things that occupied my waking hours: homework

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best ... liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy excess and I couldn’t help myself. Hong Kong is home to both the cheapest

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  infinite/amorphous time void that is IAP. Although I had plenty of wonderful ... the chance! This is my passion, and the idea of sharing that passion and ... stories and see them go into print, is sort of mind blowing. It's also

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  , and it is such a great form of relaxation. Strange, huh? The reason why it’s relaxing is because it’s so focused on clearing your mind of ... important varsity sports and teams, the MIT Pistol Team is now student-run and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  , is all around us. Its fruits are bore on every billboard, every cereal ... and big hits from our previous period. But the key here is that I am ... essay assignment is particularly interesting to me. Professor Levine has

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  is TOTALLY NOT an exaggeration after your Western Blot has already ... graduation...the class is weighted at 30 credit units (a standard class is 12 ... your GPA). There it is, 300 hours of hard work in the lab during the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  adventure known as 2.009. This is the famous capstone class for seniors in ... students, but the little known secret is that this class actually rocks. The class is called The Product Development Process (or something like that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just ... enjoy the culture? Is MIT somewhere you can see yourself being at for the next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... Meet the Bloggers. This entry is way too long and I don’t have the heart ... can deny that the architecture is really, really creative.  

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  the 5.310 (Experimental Chemistry) lab. Though the lab period is ... : Getting Our Money's Worth of 'Healthness.'" What is healthness (not a typo ... alone someone who is basically in charge of protecting the health of our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  got sidetracked, okay? I'm chatting with Adelaide '09, who is currently ... other, and Adelaide is more important than Mystery Hunt. The puzzles aren ... , 16:45 Adelaide and I are now talking about Sam '07. This is relevant

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... don't actually mean nothing at all. Everything is relative, right? You

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  commenter asking about cats. East Campus is one of the dorms with "cat floors" -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... sleep for a variety of reasons. Dr. Popular is the most skittish

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  . I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is ... . So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen-year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  after giving blood. MIT is really like that. Anyway, somebody had a ... GIRs. This is usually a good thing. If you don't have so many GIRs to ... boring for you after the AP test. Biology: There is one GIR, 7.01x

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006