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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  name Senior House is now used, and the catalog writes that it used to be ... . Last catalog it didn't exist, and before that it used to be ... over the past few months. I used to think history was pretty dry, but I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  myself that if I get it done now I won't have to worry about it later, and ... 'LL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN." It hasn't worked so far - Thursday was the day ... took me all day. It wasn't that I didn't want to do it. Organic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  can it possibly contain useful information? So definitely make sure that ... the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to ... Med, or at least google scholar. (Xkcd 2007). I know, it sounds quite

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  BeaverCube hard to control, because it can only use two dimensions of ... understand what Venus used to look like, and how its development differed from ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  Me: "Can I please list 'can raise each eyebrow independently' in the ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... way, you won't have to worry about throwing it together when the time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  my ears is loud—too loud, frankly—but it’s all I can do to block out ... it’s foot down when I try to be kinder to myself. Why can’t you just ... want to do is watch more episodes of True Blood? How quickly can I shower

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  use it to run an experiment with certain conditions, these are the key ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to ... [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... methods, but David and Ali taught me how to actually approach research ... [/annotation] rollercoaster. Our paper, titled “Paint By Word,” was on using input words to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  ="although not in the contexts that we’re used to hearing it in."][/annotation] you ... standardized test, but can be used to solve sudoku!” to but wish i paid more ... , where i learned how to use a telescope to observe stars from atop the roof

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  , or using quick-fabrication methods like laser cutting) can be better ... amount of time relative to the effort it takes to generate a quick Solid ... added that students were being taught to use computer programs to make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... 't have the capacity to make it happen unless they do. At the end of fall ... lot of effort sometimes though! It means you mostly have to interact

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... priorities vary from one institution to the next. The methods employed to ... admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... something done quickly, such as in a computer program. hack (v). - (1) To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  intersections, don’t be afraid to use crosswalks and be a pedestrian. That can ... obnoxious biker about being seen. It can save your life. Get out to the city ... ’t understand (and can’t easily clarify for yourself with a quick google search

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  college admissions community, and I have to say, it's something that I can ... that I did in my head to write the above statement, so I wrote it down ... engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  challenges keep me grounded too. If it's raining, I can't lift, and I have to ... it if/when the gyms reopened. I decided that, if I had to use the ... the country was trying to buy used gym equipment for their basements

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .02 (Calculus), and MAS.110 (Media Design). You can Google each of my classes and ... using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer ... -less so far. It’s okay, because after class, I can walk right across the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  . I haven't used these resources to find housing to be fair, but you can ... whole "survival" thing in the bag. But, I understand it can be daunting to ... walking to class. Even though it's only been a month, I walk using just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018