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• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly ... were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  of how I could use the course material to design it. Stress, beam ... at MIT. I was told prior to arriving at MIT that it was going to be ... effort to enjoy MIT, and that is when it all got better. I started to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  are! Courses are useful to some; I just like independence a little too ... the best: (1) Examkrackers - I didn't get to use their "1001 Questions ... taking the MCAT, definitely use Examkrackers to study! (2) Princeton

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  [/caption] this is my daily commute to work. it usually takes about 5-10 minutes ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... far according to google maps[/caption] i was really excited about being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  Floating Market itself has become touristy, but it was still very cool to see ... protocol? And you can't go to Thailand without seeing some of their ... From Singapore it was across the Straits of Johor to Malaysia. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  , with me, the question of whether it is in principle possible to major in ... can barely decide what flavor of ice cream to get, let alone pick ... I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  around to opening it up. Since I don't usually have class until 1pm (which ... days), I'm back in my room with absolutely nothing to do. I use the term ... I mean. And when it does (which can actually be more frequent than it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... group in addition to Simmons. And because it's IAP, I decided to take advantage of all the free time (well, more free time than I'm used to, anyway

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... class time at the end of the semester to just chat about her field. I can ... on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects) allows it, a thesis

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  [annotation note="i just googled this and found out i’ve been calling it the ... ?!? which is a patently inferior term. i refuse to use that name, so i will ... value of their memories later in life. It’s led me to incredible

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  used to people saying, "Oh, I could never go to MIT. I heard it's really ... last-minute answers. It's fashionable here to loudly announce your impending doom -- you know, it's bad luck to say good luck on opening night

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free ... the process of taking a song and trying to recover its original ... arrangements instead of singing direct transcriptions? it largely comes down to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  -- if used wisely and as a financial tool, it can really help to have that ... -new adult, FCU is a good place to start. If nothing else, use it to buy a ... I find it a lot more useful to go through old problem sets and tests

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  Britain, and it was about a news reporter whose memories are used to ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you ... group dedicated to this site[/caption] I should probably use Wikipedia as

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  straight and it'll be there), I used Google Maps, which took me on the most ... conversational protocol you quickly learn when you're headed to MIT. I asked him ... so. Drenched in sweat, I tried to unbox my bedding and put it on a bed

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it ... our dorms except to eat, use the bathroom, and exercise alone outside

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  well) but on whether they will have to pay for the dining plans. To its ... to go out to eat on the weekend, it is extremely rare that one eats at ... nadir of it was going to infuriate students. And infuriate it has. Over

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  quick to point out that I should move on because their parents can ... attached to the scholarship? This is important because it can really suck up ... it gets counterintuitive for you; to be effective you must say more by

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  and AI as they are in their own disciplines — and ready to use these ... — the path to wise, responsible citizenship — more than it does now. It is ... methods — specifically, by access to large data sets and the tools to learn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018