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  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... unfortunately won't be using Interstellar, but I look forward to using it next ... about how it feels to run out of extensions for 6.009 (Fundamentals of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  man, later that night. We rush too quickly from Jesus' death to Jesus ... A cold and biting wind claws its way across campus, and a motley ... "live" means verb, "to live," or "live", as in concurrently, alive

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  , and hopefully I'll use it to make it a little better. Ironically, it ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to ... , because I have seven more chances to take (and pass) it, the only difference

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  router. Someone on Burton 4 declared loudly that it was all due to those ... how it occurred later on this week.) It's hard to get time to yourself ... college, though, there aren't any seating charts. And at first, it can be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany ... Killian, it started to sink in that we were really graduating and I started ... Eventually it was my turn to walk. I was slightly worried about walking with

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  notion, but I think it's useful in interrogating why we do things. Consider ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions ... : Why do you want to be happy? B: Because I want to be happy. Contrast it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  : follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some of your ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb; you basically just connect it to a battery. In these more traditional ... like Tungsten is, it's spread out as a gas. For electric current to flow

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  , emotionally, and it's hard to balance with classes. I've gotten used to having ... heart, even if it wasn't a good idea, and it's hard to transition to the ... unexpectedly long time to wear off, maybe because it coincided with other starts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... Jones: There's only one way to get into MIT, and it's the hard way. What ... to work for a school where I can honestly say that. There's a lot more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  to be alone as you figure it out. You can find me on Twitter at ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... . My depression made it a struggle to step one foot outside of the dorm

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  they should retake to raise them by 30 points. I hope that it gives you ... was a middle-school cross country and road runner, I used to get ... had better form to boot? I think it was my mom who explained it to me

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  Berkeley (where up to 25% of the graduating class can be premed). It helps ... use your years at MIT to figure out about what it is about healthcare ... suddenly to 30-50%, but for the most part it still doesn't feel cutthroat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... . At that time, it’s most fun to walk over to the North End, Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and support needed to make it happen."]ridiculous events[/annotation]. People ... used on Saturday and the rest has since been distributed to other halls

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  about why I decided to commit to MIT. I tried to keep it as close as possible to the original, but I did have to edit out some details. It’s the ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  camera at it. We can take the T to Faneuil Hall, cram ourselves into the ... I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT ... , my new room. We can learn, experimentally, what exactly it takes to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  died, because I used to watch reruns of the 1980's Ripley's Believe It Or ... Engineering?" It's funny, because I remember going to a choice of major fair in ... conflicting times and few prerequisites), it's actually not too difficult to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... I want to make it happen before I become blogger cruft) that I can ... out.” I didn't use that term to describe me at the time and it doesn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018