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• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  by people completely unaware of my predispositions, I learned that I ... by train around 9:30. With two suitcases in tow— taking full advantage of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing ... the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  ;= 7)[/annotation], and of course, I'm going to be starting off by ... classes were just...meh. Some of them were just absolutely ruined by a ... notable observation - that is made doubly clear by the color coding of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... an Uber from the airport. MIT Medical was closed by the time we arrived

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  has been thus far corroborated by one year of cheat sheet test taking ... by the copying down of any pset or practice exam questions that I think ... while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  by the entire world if I did so. Arguably, this is less of a costume ... going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show My Little Pony. That makes me solidly a member of that group of fans called

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  improve aren’t large tasks by any means. I spend a lot of time thinking to ... late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  experiments. By the end of the course they can read a recent journal article ... their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The town of Nice was originally a Greek settlement named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work calendar, Thursday was "Fronleichnam," or the feast of Corpus Christi. Then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  fudge of my childhood. I've been really impressed by how easy it is to ... this IAP (with headers inspired by me realizing that parkour easily fit the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer ... went around to a bunch of different stations (math, language, reading

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising ... ) Classes I’m really enjoying my immunology program. For a taste of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  -figure-advanced, award-winning book of short stories, Drown—by most accounts the first ... several decades of history by a madcap, magpie voice that’s equally at home ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  , Dec. 22. Monday marks the beginning of the end, but why not have some ... campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2:30-3:30 PM: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, featuring a presentation by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... of undergraduates who worship the KerMIT by performing rituals to ... ’s identities were [deleted] by [deleted] in fear of [deleted]. [deleted

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  created by students, this one in front of the Student Center.   The ... -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  . Then worked to map out the dark and light areas of Pluto by measuring how ... Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015