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• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn ... more, but I think this SCP is more amenable to people who haven't read ... than pictures of snakes. "I think this is it." "This is what?" "My

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the classroom The most garden-variety way to ask for help is to find another ... . (Actually, I should say that it's really uncommon not to do that.) There

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  conversation. :) "OKAY. I'M READY!" Excellent! To make it into this semester ... Organic Chemistry is notoriously hard. But what isn't hard is having ... and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  near future - it'll take me a few days to remember what it is that I ... . Here I am, preparing to do an info session for the people on the beach: I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  , everything you see here is made out of glass. Side note: Don't ever go to ... On Saturday, it snowed!! On Sunday, the sun was shining. Go figure. And now, onto the non-meteorological information (say it, don't spray it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it ... years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... the best way to learn something is to teach it, and for me the easiest

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  telling me to schedule a makeup exam. But it’s more like this is not exactly ... …But I never thought it would be so easy to practically fail. Almost ... Ahh!!! This blog is finally happening! I think my bio page gives a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to ... things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break ... -backed prizes. While Battlecode is about writing an AI to play a game, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  together, is even harder, because usually it's impossible to get all of it ... . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... . Soldering strikes me as kind of an insane thing to do. It's like somebody said

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  free time and leisure. I think the balance is something to strive for. It ... from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... . Weekends have been staying relatively free, which is great. I went to Boston

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  to the test while conversing with alumni and employers. It was a great ... nametag and wear it on your right side. When you shake someone's hand, you ... your nametag. 2. Have a good handshake. It shouldn't be weak and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  to submit your deadline. If your application is ready to go, click that ... deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process and for it to ... application materials, please be patient as you wait for it to appear on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common ... pictures). Well, it seems okay to me and my gigantic jaw. Oh my God ... can do anything I want and she is powerless to stop me, I still think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  it’s been a whole year. Finals are over. First semester is done. Now ... : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  that is why it is in our nature to attempt to make other people more like ... to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari ... reasonable" or "i wish i could make you understand" is to say "i wish you were

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  , and this is that! I loved reading it, and I know you will too <3 ... in a cup; it is a daily ritual that brings together families and ... to perfect the recipe, and every step of that journey made it even more

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  . "A novel way to write songs", I described it as! Then I started writing ... not finishing it. I had nothing. When I went to give my presentation in ... very sad, but I talked about what I wanted it to be and I ended up

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather ... obligations and a near-empty campus. It’s pretty cool to be able to focus ... , Boston looked like this: It had snowed just enough to make everything

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018