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• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don’t know anything about ... burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero ... (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  whatever reason, asking questions in the comments section of a blog post ... in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly ... your situation in Quantum II class. I hope that things even out for you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically work; in 6.S965, we spent the first two weeks discussing how they work

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal ... hacking stuff in highschool, notably capture the flag competitions where you

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  my time in [annotation note="Physics 1"]8.01[/annotation]I was failing ... time in 8.01 was something the professor taught us in the first few weeks ... large bird with a 11 foot wingspan predominantly found in the southern

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  sorrow.    my last words stifle in the knots of my throat, so i ... shouldn’t) care about. it helps me ground myself in the truth that if i zoom ... have to nullify any part of any experience. just because i am calm in a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  as a former Burton Conner resident, i had a two options in dealing ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... more convenient in pretty much every way, i prioritize having a "campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  Back in November, after our adventure visiting every stop on the MBTA ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled Boston in Motion which included a large quantity of historical pictures

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... learn things more closely aligned to our interests in our last semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  obstacle that has affected my educational journey?” However, it was asked in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but ... in school? That last question came from a student at a high school

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... who have helped me in countless ways, one of whom even took the time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Institute of Technology next year. In addition, he will play baseball ... cards in Las Vegas. Although such an unorthodox use of mathematical ... university in Cambridge. "They do things there that haven't been done before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  community. In fact, the first sorority ever founded at MIT was the historically black organization, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA) in 1977. The second sorority ever founded at the Institute in 1980 was the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... you there and not someone who'd rather be in a coed living group ... ?" Michael Borohovski helped me out by answering: "Anonymous (re: waitlist), in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006