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  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs ... Office matters to me: it's where I pick up the twenty (give or take) problem sets I'm responsible for grading every Friday, and where I bring

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  freshmen beating themselves up on every sun-swept corner of campus. Perhaps ... allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  actually looking up stuff for my philosophy class (minds and machines) - I ... (up in the Himalayas). I'll be there for a month, working to fight the ... there is for science and engineering, but many of the humanities

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  . This morning I woke up at 5:30 and went skating for a couple of hours. I ... + Roller Blades = awesome. Rumor has it that I can get a fine for skating inside buildings but nobody has yelled at me yet (well, except for Copy

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  up for the bouncy ball drop at Senior House, or the human hamster wheel ... parent who registered for a Financial Aid session - okay, it was the candy ... … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  to Michael Fauntleroy Stopheles (M.F. Stopheles, for short) for a mere ... could rise in power for a showdown with the devil. Along the way, they ... Discipline of selling one's soul." This opened up a whole new series of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  with the Greek Griller - free bbq for everyone, and you can go around and ... find out more about frats, girls go for fun. Oh, and the food. Steak and ... time for... - being a social member of French House, a cultural hall in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up ... brilliantly, by putting up my finger like I just temporarily forgot where I ... for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening ... read this blog by spreading the word that UROP stands for Undergraduate ... would put a picture up, but teratomas are a rather shocking sight. My

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  anything. But should it be? Hmmm... You have no idea how excited I was for ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will ... of Project Runway at Television Without Pity to keep myself up to date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... . Academics come first for MIT-bound scholar Jeremy McGee began to show signs ... take off and land. It's what I love to do, and it's what I want to do for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... 's up with my financial aid? You or someone in your family should call the ... hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for ... test for prefrosh identification - more useful than phenolphtalein or even the flame test. No CPW-goer would set out for a day's adventures

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  , should I ask him for the RA position, or should I just give it up and go to ... to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  back from my Easter visit home just in time for my training session at ... Bryan's blog soon! Read on for responses to comments. Lots of responses ... _ forget it. Not to mention it really _is_ the basis for the beginnings of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  up in Lobby 7 and sang for the people that walked past. It seemed nerve ... for an arts credit. Additionally, students concentrate on a specific ... ... Then with Peter Pan, the ideas of hooks for a hand and singing pirates

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  stuff table), where people kindly placed things they found or made up for ... and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... packing i had a lot of thoughts about my time at this dorm bottled up in me

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  incredibly late. Of waking up early. Of starting my day by making a list for ... something for others. And every day is a new shot. A new chance to wake up ... really good book. The lights begin to dim. The background music picks up

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  our morale up. Here's a chance for you to play "Am I really that much ... for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... than any other, ended up showing me that though it rains and shines, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  and give up on Course 18), and my feelings for MIT in general were at an ... also was my freshman advisor so that's a double thumbs up for me when ... were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018