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  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea ... the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is ... 'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the ... .302 or 17.40 or whatever, Ruth '07, urban planneress extraordinaire, is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  not. But the feeling is much more mellow now than it was in our first half of MIT. It's not perfect, nothing is; and it's not like in our ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the ... to form the corner (i.e., three). The same concept is true in lower ... . Granted, most of the maths is in three dimensions, but doing calculus in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  actually not required for the computer science major, and I was a comp sci ... class in MIT's programming sequence, which is also, in fact, not 6.0002. I ... At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in ... Ebright, who was and is full of an infinite library of rhymes. The song

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  taking 60 units and a UROP, which is not terribly more sane than previous ... ="attachment_86135" align="alignnone" width="300"] do not look at the purple one shhh ... project is done"]Illustrator![/annotation] One of the seniors took the lead

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  fix it. Its color palette is incohesive, the perspective is off, the ... nothing during my sophomore year. The bottom drawer of my desk is filled ... sketch is always attractive; you mentally fill in all the unfinished parts

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... Day is the day where pretty much everyone has to meet with their advisor ... ... So what are my plans exactly for all those months? The short answer is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  interview and how hopeful he is about landing the spot. Two other neighbors ... is artificially cheaper there than at any area supermarket (not that I ... campus, and I won't have it any other way. The energy around here is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  are probably not the nicest on campus. There is no such thing as a ... though- April's dad is an MIT alum, so after discussing with us some of the ... that everyone agrees on is that the actual creation of the review sheet

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  , any other person’s opinion or moods not quite as important. Or is the ... we're still not completely unpacked, but the living room is the room we ... week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  , not since the summer before, for various reasons. Not my birthday, not for Thanksgiving or the holidays, not IAP, not Spring Break. Mostly ... exhibitions, and the fact that a 6-hour flight is 6 hours too long (and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  are not above a little glee at the magic of science. 18.01, Calculus ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct ... , spring 2004. Professor Matt Wilson: "The information from this neuron is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  I think the advice that has helped me the most is the advice from ... find a way to serve the MIT community. Not only will you meet amazing people along the way, but you will grow in ways that are not possible in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  called the Clear Conscience Cafe, which is right in front of this ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks ... the first half with my cousin from Puerto Rico =D Actually ended up not

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  myself. Had I not taken the advanced standing exam for 18.03, I might be ... boring for you after the AP test. Biology: There is one GIR, 7.01x ... . Which is kind of unfair, because one of the guys who teaches it identified

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  (#winning) still construct the archetypes we pattern ourselves after. This is ... hardware pioneer Limor 'Ladyada' Fried is on April’s WIRED cover. This is the ... culture-jamming “Design Noir” philosophy. The first is a pair of glasses

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is ... used as testing facilities: Heading back to the first floor, there is a big area called the Rockwell Cage: This list is by no means

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  Biology here is really a THINKING major, not the typical run-of-the ... works the best for me is, "well, if I can't remember the event, then it must not be important enough in the first place." And thus I've mentally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009