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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  pretty much the same thing. But in the second example, "going to" isn't an ... see how "year of" could easily turn to "yearof," much the same way ... (which is descended from Latin), you're down to simply "año," and you need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  fast Leaving group needed for it to react Add that nucleophile! [Bridge ... to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  proving this fact, but to do so we will need some new and better ideas ... to obtain (and thusly we will need better ideas). The "better" idea we will need will be to write $|A|$ as a sum. In particular, consider the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually ... to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... , describing what they've left where, and people scurry to claim it and carry it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  not have pondered before but I bet now need to know the answer to: what ... Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  glass, giving us sun-deprived city dwellers some much-needed glimpses of ... So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  he expects the new one will be up by midday Sunday. "You need to be ... children, and they need help processing it. "What will be most troublesome to ... realized that according to many theories, we shouldn't be seeing anything

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  and pepper to taste 1. Wash the rice once with cold water, and place in ... on Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday morning). So to procrastinate on ... rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  --very much reading and writing, which I would like to change eventually, but I ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I feel increasingly like I need a really good post about all the cool

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  first point, even though it seems so obvious that I shouldn't need to say ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  , our successes. I learned so much about them, about their journey to MIT ... one week in addition to psets that need to be completed, I want ... Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  I need to finish before going in to work. Every Friday, my research ... gross. First, I need to catch a bus, which stops across the street from my ... to run through it fully. Usually, I prepare much more for presentations

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  probability: I might move to Next House. I might transfer halls. I might join a ... ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  because there was WAY too much to blog. Pokemon Booth 8 years ago this ... cleaners that could be used to build big fuzzy animals, pretty much told us ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  Do Not Need To Live In A Fraternity To Feel Like You Belong. I live on ... a dozen people. Their brains probably went "NOOOO! Snively's going to ... ! He doesn't possess the self-control to write honestly about a sensitive

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim ... working with the meche community. I went to makerspaces about once per week ... complex, convoluted routes to the center. Every time they were returned to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of ... of MIT Undergraduate Women in Physics, and asked her to do some physics ... the physics of real-life scenarios, it's useful to start with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011