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• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  - telling inside jokes to people not on the inside. My apologies. =) Lucy ... order to do well on tests? i guess i'm just kind of scared of being the ... someone, because they're not remotely related to the questions on the pset

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  . Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is MIT's response to these research, analysis, and public education challenges. At the ... Model (IGSM), a linked set of computer models designed to simulate the
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  live on the second floor. Also, the dorm is split into two sides- Conner ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in the game and TV rooms. (More on those later.) The laundry room is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  called Revit. To get a grasp of it, on the first day of class, our ... for the past month: And, before you ask, yes, I refuse to use Google ... teaching relies on the assumption that your materials are mostly homogenous

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... weekend, I hope to answer the backlog of questions, talk a bit about the waitlist, and more. Again, congratulations to the Class of 2009!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  could run at this speed. I'm on pace to have the busiest and most ... everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time ... get excited about the Amharic class he’s taking at Harvard. On our way

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  church that is about to open on Park Ave. We would not have many of the ... 2013 documentary on the Penn State community's reactions to and ... , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  , it is also an introduction to abstract algebra class at MIT! The second ... restrictions, so I'm also looking forwards to that somewhere out on the horizon ... we're really enjoying. Cool, we're done with classes! Now, on to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  is currently undecided about how to vote on a bill. The Harvard ... briefing on the bill, then hold a “meeting” with the congresswoman trying to ... while I run out to the bathroom, and I come back pumped to argue on behalf

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the ... measured like four cups of rice, filled it water up to the line that said "4" inside the pot, put in the chicken, and set it to cook. After a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  . (Recording these was already an interesting experience. In order to make the ... audience of one: the microphone! Fortunately no one ever walked in on me ... any lecture to prepare for quizzes; and the printed version provides a

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  . This was our second LLAB of the semester.   3) Do you have to do ... , internships, etc. On the other hand, there are many opportunities to do some ... fellow cadets - because our detachment is on the smaller side, you get to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  . After the park, we went to Disney Springs, an outdoor mall on Disney ... just as we were next to go on the ride, the ride literally shut down ... went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  towards that. On the second day of 2022, I found myself pulling out my old ... friends, the list goes on. And yet, with all these achievements and friends ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  question: 'I am international applying to MIT for the second time now. I ... good chance of finding success the second time around. It all depends on ... mit so i little to worry about now just workin on keepin the grades high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to ... "piston" (on the left half of the machine) to displace air to the cooler side of the engine. The air on the cool side loses heat to the outside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high ... making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for the very last one of those posts has crept up on me. Let's calculate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  senior year - I took the 6.189 Intro to Python course on MIT Open ... , I’m also now embarking on the project of redesigning our website to ... ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  MBTA silver line, to the red line, and all the way home... Unfortunately ... weeks if they left Canada to drive me to Boston. Fact 3: the school ... 't it be so funny if I got Caragay to pick me up at the border and drive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020