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  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue. Hopefully it will assist all of you with your housing choices. What is ... Many of you have already received it, but for those of you anxiously

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and its name is Grease Lightning. Its empty mass is 0.1kg and coefficient of drag is 0.21. The lightning bolts make it faster while the paint job

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... ’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  clocks, one of which somehow reset itself to Eastern Time when I hooked it ... bed and woke up 45 minutes late. No matter - this is the first time it ... 'm so happy to be awake at 8-in-the-moooorning! Yeah, it's trash day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... , it was to have the title You Knew What MIT Would Be, and it was going

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... turns out, it is very hard to do many of these things, and I worry that I ... like it is); I’m going to keep trying to do math and CS, but I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... don’t want to force them to be happy again, because it’s better to let

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to ... Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  software) it really is much easier to just ask that person in the same room ... surprise, and I expected it to be all better when I take classes in my major ... will to improve is the surest sign that you're just not that into what

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  intelligible, which is why it's inaccurate to call them dialects, as some ... , and Daniel asked me to guess the fifth person's name. "Is it, uh, Emma ... semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  adjust to" to "it was a nuclear disaster", and anybody not on that scale is ... it's possible to feel even shittier, but it is. Plus, no matter what ... freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  that I'm here, I LOVE it! It is so amazing to be able to have any book I ... that, it truly is a book about what it means to be alive and human ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Hopkins to talk about her work with zebrafish and cancer research that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  I struggle, I must leave my room To look for help before it is too ... a study of human nature as it is a story: the best way to describe it ... students cry en masse, Your confidence, you will come to lament." It could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get ... . With ~10,500 apps, it is likely that I never personally crossed paths ... to "proove" to you that it's not a reflection on you, rather it's an

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  make it move exactly how you want it to -- this is called controls. This ... thing is from where you want it to be. If your thing is very off, your ... . I know it's easier to talk about liking a class when it's over, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  that - but he wants to be able to prove this conjecture. "It's not easy to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a ... curve and certainly looks real enough - if decidedly tricky to make. Dr

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was ... spreadsheet was born. I don't really know what compels me to keep it up, other

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  if you've chosen a major that fits you? Fit is a fuzzy concept, hard to quantify or plot. But this is what it means to me: Fit is having at least ... because it's required but simply because it's so interesting. Fit is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  spread it around to help me out, it's http ... : Applying to college is a terrifying process. The applications are all filled ... sheets of paper and turn it over to the judgment of complete strangers. And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007