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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  absolutely the right decision. I took three classes in my major this last ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the ... .006 test. This was a problem. I can't study during CPW, especially since I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  . Nothing gold can stay. etc. etc. etc.  We obviously couldn’t leave without one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior ... , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... this in another blog, but I did nearly all of my readings this semester! I was in a writing workshop that assigned 60-100 pages of fiction per

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... learn that Beethoven may have met Mozart. I'm not sure how to describe why ... Milton's 400th birthday: December 9, 2008. I was a junior in High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I ... pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely ... is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  .) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me ... rubbing victory in the face of the losing team for an entire year. I'm not ... Native Americans in the area who taught them how to fish and hunt local

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  't realize how much jargon was in these notes until I posted them. Now, big ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... can let my Day 1 Lecture Notes stand in place of a blog post describing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  fact that I can't even remember what it was.) I feel like Carly Rae Jepsen just had a large impact on everyone's psyche in elementary school. I ... , her album E•MO•TION came out in middle school. I remember coming across

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because Mollie starts tomorrow and I needed to get things to a certain point so that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  /baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... family, friends, food, and fun! You can learn more about Jennifer ... Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from ... books signed. Sadly, I found out about it too late and I was in class ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  I was in China. Look, here's proof! : Just Wednesday night, I was ... much though, because of copyright issues. For my part, I was working in ... is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  wrath of the shop guys, or a drop in their grades. I can guarantee that ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other ... share with a few other engineering-related student groups (I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  safety. But how can anyone feel truly safe and secure without proper ... creations in my [annotation note="No, I am not working, this is just a jo ... , food Instagram @thefrenchdormitory, where I can at least pretend that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the ... let my body rest and heal. I did bring my skates with me, just in case ... abysmal. I didn't have a car, public transportation wasn't an option in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his ... as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a ... , according the ALS Association's website. Reif dedicated the event to Karolina

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  very strange looks. Whatever. Let the world judge. Also, I can't resist ... towels this week, or 2) suck it up and put them in the laundry. I picked ... until other people came back in. At 6:45, I woke up and discovered that 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... out how to condense your life into 100 words or less), I'm assuming you're exhausted. I was. So I suggest two courses of action in no particular order

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012