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  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  up doing with my life. 18.03: Differential Equations I no ... parents both do research in biochemistry and molecular biology; it’s exciting to understand more about what they do every day. I’m happy that the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  : what am I doing this semester? MIT has many urban horror stories about ... useful to know off the top of your head when doing audio production; for ... do the math before recording in big rooms since the ability to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their field. And we have the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program doing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... how do you tell the difference? You can't really. It's a lot of feel and ... wonder how on earth someone is supposed to do something productive with so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back ... honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a ... at MIT by doing fun things like Mystery Hunt, glass blowing, break

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  it a second thought, because it's just not something I imagined doing ... , why CAN'T I be on the other side of the world during IAP? Why MUST I do ... -week class on the power of modern media. We're also doing night-time lectures

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling ... have not yet finished, and of how no matter how much work you do there ... you really should have been doing work instead of baking 3 kinds of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ... . I babysit rats now. I even do so out of the kindness of my own heart ... networks. Hopefully during IAP, I'll have time to learn how to do perfusions

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  using that term on television. And yet, we here at MIT do it all the time ... book review is suggesting that maybe us 40- somethings might be doing our ... wants popsicles?” They didn’t know what to do with that word, it had

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  at MIT. I was thinking of doing something similar this year - but this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  whatva I do what I want" and flew home to surprise him. I have tons o

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... leaning towards MIT, I don't want to take their spot" * I do not think this ... thing of me to do, but I guess it reflects the state of my mind at that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  it is you do. There's a whole new world full of opportunities about to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... 's because my brain can't do the think now because it thunk too hard and wants ... MRIs. It's one of those things that you could feasibly learn to do before

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  program runs without any errors, but I do anticipate lots of frustration ... course is to do a case study of the evaluation process of a major ... class holds in store for us, but I do feel like I could go out into the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  dramatically after college, junior year became the "just do it" era. This motto ... applies to the lab, too.) "Just do it" was difficult to implement during ... 't insist that you should spend at least one IAP at MIT, just doing things for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  , and we DEFINITELY do not have exams." Proctor: "Oh...okay. We'll sort it ... ! DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT WAS?" Sophie: "What?" Me: "THAT PROCTOR! DO YOU ... work that I’ve been doing, but you can expect to hear plenty more from me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a laptop?? Does anyone else still read books, or do you all have Kindles

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  ’d totally rock an MIT-themed Family Feud episode. What do all of those have ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my ... interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  ? Nope, that was me talking about a special 5.111 lecture. And yes, you do ... misleading with my title. They're not 3D glasses. They do, however, allow you ... screaming or shaky cinematography can quite do justice to it. (Nor can any

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010