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• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... [annotation note="they were like… “let’s go to a bar after!” and I was like.....“i’m ... Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I ... . ------------------ I want to talk about integrals. I’m pretty sure a lot of you nerds who ... zooming in: And then suddenly, if you zoom in far enough, the curve isn’t a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... course, doesn't really hold a candle to something I did this summer -- I ... them apart we have to take a small piece of their tails (don't worry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  of the missed quiz it doesn’t feel like a reset day; I catch up on ... the more we know We don't know anything I'm not hosed beyond belief; I’m ... , but I haven’t gotten there yet. The search for a reset day feels like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won't ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  Meet the Bloggers, a glorious event for which we are required to wear t ... you can't do art—my friend and I made a mural from stickers one night ... a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week ... chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18, who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day looks like as a junior studying physics! 11:15 — I ignore my alarm. 11 ... a full 6 hours a night but they’re still a frosh so they don’t count

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  , guess what country I'm in: Looks like Europe, doesn't it! For a second ... my life. I'm kind of like a less creepy version of the subservient ... . "Cross suchandsuch a bridge for .25 miles." Yessir Google Maps, I'm at

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  ; I enjoyed the lesson but didn’t see a kettle bell again for months ... , since you couldn’t skip a workout and promise to make it up the next day ... triceps were visible in a way they hadn’t been before. And my carpal tunnel

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  [/annotation] in it, don't worry) and both were delicious. there's a dope park nearby ... to do during the academic year since i didn't have a bike! bike's are ... Lower Allston. Boston is a completely different place in summer and i'm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... wake up. the analogy is that when there's something i'm alarmed about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• 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.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910

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

  ambition finding direction

  

  technical projects. “a lot of people” means… actually i’m not sure. i don’t ... extremely wealthy? i wouldn’t mind, but it’s not a goal that motivates me day ... say about me? i’m reminded of a poem i enjoyed recently: “They aim to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub ... : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... this simplistic thing that I still couldn't get a hold on. I hated it ... I'm asking are dumb. If I'm even set to be a computer science major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  packet seemed like a long time, so it couldn't be that bad? But that ... school, I wasn't exactly a note-taking person. In fact, a teacher once ... wasn't learning much and was instead just being a mindless typewriter. To

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  doesn't exist for a semester or seven and take it in your last term at MIT ... class, you won't pass, you won't graduate, you won't get a job, no woman ... physics is made of evil and you definitely won't pass that as a freshman

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got ... of them attend universities within a 200-mile radius.) Good morning, I'm ... housing subdivision. I couldn't believe it, either. A tad agrarian

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007