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  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
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  is going on in there, and it's currently completely empty.) Then today ... . The thing about sphygmomanometers is that they have an awfully long name ... off for no reason. =) A sphygmomanometer is the device you use to take a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at ... get on the bad graces of the janitorial staff. WATE is perhaps the only ... separate versions of it. "Poo-wate" is played on instruments, "S'weight" is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  ways with her mid-20s long ago, kept asking variations of "How is ... and foremost purpose of going to college is to learn, but I'm torn about ... evolution of media. As it is a writing class, there are about two essays due

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  rest is history. I arrived late last Saturday night at East Campus, my ... REX is over and you've visited all the floors and ranked them according ... assumed, "EC" is short for East Campus.) REX is a period during which new

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

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  and realized I have a lot of half-finished blogs, which is a bit tragic ... intramural soccer, which is nice since I used to play soccer pretty regularly ... feel that is cheating Show off your Boston sports pride ✅ I went to a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  short essay, and I’m not even halfway done with. Now this is just an ... 's the point?" "The point is to make money." Rest assured that purchasing a house is not part of the basics of college. The first time I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... to help me choose. Huzzah! This is an exercise in what it's like to be ... : Okay before you judge me I just think chemistry is interesting but maybe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... Random Hall family is being abruptly replaced by strangers who still trip ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... students ethics; but nothing is more powerful than when they lead by example

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... our projects last week, and this recitation is about how to turn those ... through the wringer. the blue light coating is peeled and scratched, the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... interesting is that while everyone has a room to put their stuff in, almost no ... house, in a giant room with bunk beds like at a summer camp. It is kept

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... more conceptual questions. The bulk of my lab work is typically completed ... Science! This is an introductory discrete math course: so far, we’ve gone

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  perfection. If you think about it, the CPU inside your computer is basically ... post, it is almost certainly powered by one of the following three ... Suddenly she is in a magical, technicolour world Last week, MIT’s Professor

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  think MIT has worn out of me is empathy. I won’t say that I was always ... around you is one of the most important parts of making this school ... that the two are hardly correlated at all. The truth, it seems, is that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022