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  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to ... . I didn't know how to do any of it. The next day in class we got them ... hard (2.001, 8.02, 18.03, etc) but I can do them if I put in the work

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  hear, the food is pretty decent, but I can't speak from experience. The ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  -da! (Oh, all photos in this entry are courtesy of my Mac's webcam since I ... to walk how we want it to. At the end of the month I'll try to write a ... aggressively screening e-mails (ie, not answering e-mails that I feel can be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  and buries me underneath it. How I struggle to find oxygen in this ... 've always liked just sitting in whatever vehicle it may be. I loved being in ... the station and I must interrupt the quiet peace I've found in transit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... creativity. I really like cooking. It is kind of fun to look in your pantry

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon ... become obsolete like a floppy disk. I can hold my reservations about said ... can only keep going, or we wouldn’t be where we are today. IN

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  about how bad things can be, especially in the face of darkness. No, when ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... grew so small. I walked in circles and circles, sick to my stomach. Later

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• 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 / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  couple inches of snow can shut down everything for days, I’m super ... you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you’ve heard, but it’s cold in Boston right now. Like, really cold. Arctic tundra

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  . 3. Minh and Lizzy asked how I found my UROP position. In the middle of ... virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  : Psh, that's not so many stairs! I'm in good shape, I can do that no ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... would be an alternate way across the river. Nope. I skated back. How about

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software ... I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... project makes me realize just how much I've learned in one year here and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  question about art supplement. How many works I can include in my portfolio ... domestic student. Victor wrote, "I know you can include pictures in your ... . This means I can't put pictures in for the other ones. I would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  the original pictures. I panicked. Every picture in every entry was ... -O-N-E. I began thinking of how I would explain this to everybody, but instead ... bed early tonight. Things I'd like to blog about in the future? - Toy

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  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 ... inside an app like Facebook, I look for ways through which I can request a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i ... Though I haven't had internet for the past week, there has still been ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... 's appointment, right before I went to Best Buy to pick up a [annotation note ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... . Technically, none of us can fail a single class this semester. I distinctly ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008