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  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  and it has gotten me more into chemistry, but lectures are lowkey (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as ... class, there are slides posted, plus an extra notes sheet that has some of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007 ... years of female college juniors with leadership, community involvement

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... are tiny; students don't really take advantage of them. This is fine by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about navigating

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of inconsolable horror at the sight of more Arabic numerals than I've seen since the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that ... Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. Its 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  full week's worth of life into it. This semester, I only had one final, on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit ... a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  of venturing deeper into the raging monsoon in search of Star Market ... entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I decided to split it into two posts. I mean, split my blog into two posts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to feel like one giant meatloaf of beaching and eating and working and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  transformed into the four categories of Cranium. Hackers even managed to ... that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... begun putting our study habits into high gear. Although you'd think that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi ... the last bit of my milk, which may have been a problem tomorrow ... city of angeles. Man, I love it when vacations line up with food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  through San Francisco, across the Bay (not Golden Gate) Bridge into Oakland ... , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of ... episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I woke up early this morning and was

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even know it was coming. Two of my best friends from high school were visiting me and another one of my best friends who goes to MIT. We were walking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  represents the transition of the newly admitted class from the Admissions ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into ... ://web.mit.edu/yourusername. Neither of these methods are foolproof, but they are good first checks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  when a group of wildly different people, plunging into a wildly different ... nonlinear series of glimpses into my freshman year at MIT: —   ... “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  producing the oil and moving into more interesting components of the ... By now, three full days have passed into my second semester here. The ... weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on the front door. Inside, we are welcomed into the MIT community by alums

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  ” creeps into my typing fingers like an arthritis, and every push of the ... into a wheat flour batter, which briskly crisped into a skillet of ... journey into the desolate zombiefied streets of Boston, whose denizens were

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here ... , since it ended up being completely false - but I'm getting ahead of myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013