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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... apologies. =( So here it is, a long overdue update about everyone's favorite ... apprehension. I guess it had something to do with math teachers and classes

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... difficult committee this year, which is always a mixed bag: it makes our ... thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  surprise this time next year. Surprise! Boston is cold. Sorry to spoil it for ... , and I'll add you to the post. :) It's kind of a fun way to meet your classmates, and it'll at least be entertaining to look at a year from now. I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week ... day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  enough to major in management at MIT? Is math even a major part of it? You ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to ... that it will be up here May 1. They also said they'll be mailing it to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is ... 's Worcester. I'm going to teach you how to pronounce it now, you ready? Pretend ... . Snively Advice Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don't sound like a

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

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  as good as it gets. I get to oversee all aspects of student life and ... continue this process during the coming term, as I believe it is very ... , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . This is a great class, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone with an ... , and to the best of my knowledge its true nature is still a mystery). A ... is before we measure it give rise to a very well-understood theory that

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  What day is it?? It’s March 27th. Which means two things. Happy ... day-to-days and what it means to be a Muslim woman at MIT.   What is a Muslim? “To me, being Muslim is not something that is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one ... ’ perfect (which is why I don’t mind shamelessly plugging it on the blog). BUT ... some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just another place. If it is amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the ... comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  what I mean?) Bezel The 2006 beaver is supposed to look a little more ... on the chapel is meant to represent religion, and the juxtaposition of the religious symbol and the double helix is meant to show the need for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  set off and which ones i want to avoid. this is why i think it is ... my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... to date them. it wasn’t until two years ago that i realized i didn

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  dinner before taking the minibus back to our guest house. It is unclear if ... ,000 Kwache each, which comes out to roughly $3.75). It was incredibly sunny ... drivers only leave a stop if their bus is full, so it is an interesting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  are people's spirits. So: my banana plant is almost too large to fit ... on that later this summer it is time for those of you who might want ... bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  to college is as meaningful for you as it was for me. A big part of the ... essay the best it can be. This post is called "discovering yourself ... out what matters in your life, transferred it to paper, and can only

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  looks like it has transitioned to rain =( Last week, I finally busted out ... a fireplace (even if it is boarded up and non-functional, as are most ... in January is 36 degrees, the average low is 22 (it's also the coldest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... opportunities to listen to the music ourselves and discuss it with you." "Hello ... this seems so strange to me, but it's something like this: each of those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to ... ancient tradition, and I was determined to respect it. I felt vaguely ... pointed me to their gate. It’s ok? I asked. Yes, of course. [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023