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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  . Douglas Royer for AP Government? Play it again, Sam Colin: Put up a sound ... up. I really do appreciate all your comments; they not only illuminate ... grandmother's house for a few hours. Jose '07, shown in this entry, took a month

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  want. Feel free to show up only for the actual weekend days. I'm not sure ... still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... ) bunk room for about 5 hours. I got a lot of HASS reading done. =) Then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  1. Why I didn’t think I would be a good fit for engineering. I came ... , messing up, then starting all over again. I was frustrated by the meticulous ... cognitive sciences as my major for one simple reason: because it was cool, and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... engineer in my company had a master’s degree or was studying for one. This ... funded study, and master’s programs in the UK are only 1 year, freeing up a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  headed to a pop up restaurant for some arepas. when we were sufficiently ... group's senior class, as well as two stray juniors, which made for the ... for MIT students that I'm aware of are Puerto Rico, Aruba, Mexico, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  MIT. We signed up for three, attended all three for the first week, and ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we ... worked on: Splines Splines are basically curves. For this assignment we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the ... try to think things through. For rather difficult problems, sitting ... ’ve held your breath for way too long, spurts that come typically after

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  .   feels like it snuck up on me like — ha! — got you   ... this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven ... okay and *deeply* grateful for the people that supported me through my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  where companies set up booths to display the latest gadgets they are ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  going to sleep after them and waking up before them to get all my work ... class is infamous for taking a lot of time to do the work (but like I said ... was the right choice for me. I've really enjoyed coming home to an

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  up quite readily from those around us. And now, while it is more ... had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few ... ;advantageous" for being recognized. But the decision to write in German wasn't

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  adjusting the debt limit was brought up by various legislators. Sen. Schumer ... legal requirement for the government to continue paying its financial ... : When I visited Borders last week for their liquidation sale and saw Prof

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I ... though was that though it was about 10F degrees outside, it warmed up to a ... .) I immediately gained a new appreciation for why we all wore helmets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  celebrations for your enjoyment. I met up with my friend Martin and we ... up huge TV screens so that thousands of people could watch the games at ... time with the thousands of people chanting. Here's another video for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• 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…

  

  advice courtesy of Sara Ferry '11. It's time for some more Boston advice ... many people swear up and down to it rhyming with "beta" as people ... actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry, Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined ... ] Caltech people deciding to show up at this [obscenity] [obscenity] ungodly

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  curves are generated from them. Joey, who built up this project for a ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id ... camera lenses. This is called scattered light, and it can cover up possible

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  course can be used to study for the most common questions that come up on ... It's time to answer more questions... You should know that writing up one of these entries takes up a good deal of time, so I'm sorry that my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  the winning team in 2013']different name for each year of its existence ... they’ve known each other for a long time. But instead of feeling excluded ... kicked out in March, our[annotation note="which we use all year round for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021