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  See You Later

  

  freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... brilliant professor and forced to think in new, uncomfortable ways. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  below an A or a B in your life. And though I know nothing I can say will ... demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew ... Course 16, although I think that's spelled "camber". Can you tell I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... programming. I've got a background in programming, but they use Python whereas I ... lot of sense. All in all, I love this class so far. 2.002-Mechanics and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in Organization (how I organize) Organizing Your Notes  (you will have tons) The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  . But I didn't know how to make these, as my education in engineering ... to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family. As I've posted before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new ... visited." As an international, I don't know how much you follow American ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  little bit cheaper. If you're in New York, I definitely recommend checking ... colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  living in a double), it does have its perks (I can drink juice from the ... MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready ... number, size, and volume, to the point that people in China can almost no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  wasn't admitted, though I can understand how it might be easier for ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... ] can never be sure before mid-May" and that "we will let you know how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... beginning of the school year for dinner. (As I checked out their website, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  piebald on the radio yesterday Diana: yup...i saw their new cd at best buy ... Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I ... ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  problem, but if i’ve only done these things once or twice then how can i ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  waiting in front of me, so my adult ego got the best of me. I forgot how ... Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... exhibit but I did go into the gift shop to see if I wanted to buy anything

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio: Course 6-7, or 7, or maybe 20.  I had loved AP Biology in high school ... -(semester)-life crisis where I asked myself why I wanted to major in bio: was it just

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can ... material interesting. I was, in fact, much more interested in my friends

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and watched How I Met Your Mother and ate a chocolate cupcake. Then came the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  explain how I chose mine. How Anna Chose Her Major Once upon a time, in a ... . *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the ... , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to

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

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  'm quantifying. I try to make plots in a way that allows each plot to show a new ... post to describe how I go about writing my data analysis blogs. So, here ... asking myself the following: What story do I want to tell? How does

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National ... research at the NIH. So, I dug around the NIH website (http ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat ... -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches ... addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025