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  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  received this email from the Committee on Academic Performance (links are all mine) According to our records, you have not completed the General Institute Requirement in Physical Education. The requirement includes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  something you don't know. (In many classes, test questions will take the form ... ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  So I think that the goal was that this post be filled with wisdom and ... , I worried about what the experience would be like to spend two (though ... back to school. Being back in school, in the same building that I had

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  pictures! Hopefully by my next blog post, all my pictures will be beautiful ... will be. As usual, here is a picture of Galileo to end this post with ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  applications. Since I'm certain that whatever path I ultimately choose will be ... machine learning and statistics, which are tools I will inevitably be using ... let go of physics just yet, despite it being less relevant to the career

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... MIT but not being the next Nobel laureate. Tell them that it doesn ... they won't stop, sometimes they will, but you have the moral highground

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  " is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... posters. I did really like the color I picked, but it turned out to be a ... weeks later decided the next step in the beach theme would be to paint a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  /6/2021) april 2020 Over the past few weeks, coronavirus went from not being ... students are being sent home from colleges across the country, back home ... will be remembered. How I’ll look back on it all. Who even knows how long

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  after the hour, the assignment would be considered incomplete and graded ... wonderful to be back in one of my favorite cities, celebrate the end of the ... final, 6.034 Artificial Intelligence. The grading for this class is quite

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  final presentation I will be in part presenting on Monday, so that'll be a ... remarkable overlap the lessons I learn about being a better engineer translate ...   Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... the question"]never[/annotation]be a student on this campus again. For ... when I find them they assuredly won’t be exactly the same as what I have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  hard as it's made out to be. In fact, I wish I could take it for the next ... using Aspen and contributing to an MIT Coal Study that will actually be presented to the US Department of Energy by our professor. How bad can that be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your undergrad school will change you, whether for better or ... that will bring out the best aspects of you, even if they're not totally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  (a_n) on that sequence will be the value of the function of that point, ie f ... part of the reals, with their norm being the absolute value. This allows ... I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  where to take Contour from here. Meet the Bloggers I’ll be at our very ... pie, and meet adMITs. The blogs have been such a wonderful thing to be ... went to [redacted] university they'd be much the same. But you - who

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  . Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about the things in [EECS Opportunities List ... mentioned quite a bit. To be frank, I lack the attention span to pay attention for 3-4 hours, but I recall being very captivated by the whole thing

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  when? Duck Tour -- all that quacking will drown out the sobs Front desk ... -apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of-life-okay? dump that special someone. Some people will carry out entire relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of ... , which I realize might not be the right word for this, to die down

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  grades will be. But at some point the improvement becomes miniscule ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing ... being worth it. I’ve come to understand that the things I want to do are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  ask -- the rumor that movie star Will Smith was admitted to MIT is ... You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... . Recently, two people who turned down MIT after being admitted have become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010