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  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get ... style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend ... fantastic. We stayed at the Venetian, perhaps only second to the Bellagio in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... scratched” [1]. In simpler terms, harder materials are more difficult to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... , classes where I will never talk to anyone new and classes where I could have ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  ready to analyze. In order to get it ready, I need to "clean" it. What ... '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

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

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... PE golf right up until May so she would be able to graduate in June

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... weather. To get us started, let's go over some important terms: Nor ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... where they go for lectures and exams. It's like going to work. How could ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  score, no matter how high it is, is not enough to get you into MIT ... , to which I retaliated by going out and getting Daily Paperfolding or ... orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The ... yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  group, I made new friends. In mid-November, I finally managed to finish my ... : publishing gets pretty quiet in December, and editors don’t acquire many new ... hope you all are safe and well! Here’s what I’ve been up to in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... to jam up if adjacent keys were struck rapidly in succession. So, the ... would be forced to rely on their weaker hand as much as possible. In the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  told, I haven’t necessarily had to do before. In the end, the month was ... material. It is, in the big picture to me, a tradeoff. In comparison to last ... be done in terms of this city, and got to have a much-needed week off

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  .']concentrate[/annotation] in linguistics, I thought it'd be suitable to talk about some things I've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  council so much and I wish we were in person so I could get to know them ... afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  know how to do everything in your current position, but that your new ... , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college ... them, but in total, it comes out to something like 35-40, hence the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  and how to use it. Along with installing i3, I also installed vim in ... . Honestly, I don't know if I'll get to these goals in time, since I know that ... 'm really happy to see how far I've come in this process. I hope that with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , growing up in South Dakota, I always wanted to get away from home and move ... talks about the importance of music, about how we cling to it in our ... am back in South Dakota, for example, I often get the urge to just take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  applications, how bleary-eyed we get from reading them, and so on. But the ... night/weekend work is expected from October to April. In return, your job ... makes. Unlike some parts of the country and the world, here in New

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  me. I may post some photos in a future entry. Anyway, I will get to the questions I didn't answer today in tomorrow's entry, in addition to the new ... going to get to every question today. Amy wrote, "I saw people carrying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006