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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  , so I had to go to regular check-in and there was a really long line ... really fast. Then I got the people standing in line for security to let me ... decide to major in Architecture or Management, or if you just want to leave

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow ... so good that it squirted me in the eye," he says. He loves talking to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to ... didn't get to see it all year. And usually during the school year, Adam and I go out on Friday nights, so I don't get to see Monk. But during

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  Teaching Labs where you get to teach in other countries to summer internships ... get up earlier in the morning or skip a class or two to have the time to ... sounds like a class you were supposed to take in high school, but, in fact

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... sometimes forget to wear pants in the hallway. (But then again, who doesn ... -course-meal by myself, and so in a throwback to that first original dinner party

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... . After we toured, we were put in random order from 1-136 and allowed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... our food stops and border control in-between, it took us 15 hours to get ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... 5 on AP Calculus BC in high school, so I was expecting to get credit ... decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... learned about jack and picture yourself in his shoes and think about how

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... symbols There is exactly one set in that board of 20 cards. Find it before ... card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... found more fun to sail in than the FJ’s we sail at MIT. (^Also PC to ... team to finish in a combo beating the other team (ex: your team wins if

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted ... . We sat for a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how to stabilize it ... keeping the heat in. Next was to make the crust dough and freeze it so we

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... your friends, on your professors, on the random people you sit next to in ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  addict myself to new sources of caffeine).  When we stress-test welds in ... .096: blacksmithing, and How to Make Almost Anything. I got into all but the last one. I ... people who are taking more classes than this, and still find time to be in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  handed out copies of her demos to record labels in Nashville, only to get ... mind trying to get it back Wasn’t it easier in your lunchbox days Always ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  here so long that I've forgotten what it's like to be in love with a ... so long to finalize decisions. This is the first year in which the ... quickly how difficult it would be to come to a consensus via sporadic emails

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of ... , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012