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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we ... to see this, but it was an awesome show put on by the Musical Theater

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics ... cause I will not talk to you if you are not holding a muffin for me.). It ... being able to do physics so quickly that he is a veritable blur. This was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found ... dozens of fields, open exclusively to MIT students. Although there is no ... —the pressure is always on to glean as much wisdom and learn as many lessons as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  't bring myself to do them. Such is life sometimes, I suppose. I wanted ... students to use before it's due, and a version with solutions after they ... do feel rust because of how long it's been, it's been so fun to think

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  product, and proceed to spend every waking hour of their lives (it seems) working on it, hoping to have the full, finished, working (!) prototype done ... afraid to start cheering in lab when we got something to work. Obviously it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... way to the Western Avenue Bridge, which is near the Harvard Business ... ! whenever the weather is good, i feel guilty if i'm not outside, so it's great

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  to real life. A GRT is MIT's version of an RA -- I guess at most ... is not in fact Utopia, and if I say, "Nope! I love everything about it!" that just sounds completely disingenuous. I guess to some degree this is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  majors (perhaps thinking that if they make it difficult to understand, only ... first concept to understand is the General Institute Requirements (GIRs ... have to complete 270 units outside the GIRs, which is substantially

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it ... dreams because all I wanted is to have any job, and not live in the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  quite reasonable time to wake up - and, really, it wasn't that bad. But compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . How could it seem so real to them? I closed my eyes again. Don't you ... ? Don't you know the sky is the same here? Don't you see it? The base of ... . Or intelligent. Or determined. But it is just a crosswalk. And some

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  , this is a great commencement speech. So is this one. --- So it's a week ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control ... decisions, everyone! :D --- WHY ART HISTORY IS AWESOME LIST OF ALL

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... Claus, Miley Cirus......, it really doesn't matter who is writing out the ... interests; SUPER! Kudos to you. However, if it doesn”t relate to your intended

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however ... a lot to accomplish, yeah it was. Fortunately, we had a team of eleven

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  -Year Program students. This is an opportunity for us to tell the staff what we ... technical setting, but it amazes me to see how the lessons have reached into ... that effect, and I don’t want to let it go. And before anyone scoffs to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or myspace? um, you are currently reading it General 004. What is your height ... mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  , cite a theorem, and turn it in. Well, that is exactly what I did, and I ... taken a class and gotten so much out of it before. I did start going to my ... , it was honestly humbling to look back at all my failures of somewhat

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  know, with things so bright and so bleak, that this is what you have to ... little sad, but mostly, it makes me want to take a couple years off between college and grad school (haha). Then, I try to imagine what it would have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  around telling people I wanted to be a cancer researcher. It sounded so ... . There was only one problem. Saying I want to be a “cancer researcher” is ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it’s

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011