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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  half hours in Montreux before I had to get on the last train back home ... Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... of my musical preferences. So, upon getting to Europe I knew that what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  , whatshouldtimcallme.tumblr.com, get ready to go out at night, or just stay in to karaoke ... worried about getting put in a quad, there are only 10 on campus, all located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... did get me into the learning zone. I didn't expect that the audience to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  -athletes to get their take on sports at MIT and the current 2023 fall season ... -athlete because it is hard to find the friendships and bonds you get with your ... though we lost 0-8 (cry), it was so fun to go on a road trip and stay in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... to say students don't get individual attention from professors at MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to ... intense – in addition to simulating our designs in software, almost

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this ... community to participate in what was happening. So did many other people, and ... registration initiative that allows anyone to register to vote in Massachusetts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... . This wasn't something that I considered when moving in, but being able to ... the hall, but it matters to me so it’s on the list. Last year in Baker

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... class relevant to students' daily lives, and (b) how MIT policy affects ... satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience ... how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... Mark Wahlberg anyway, so there. I still get to talk about the mystery

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  , pretending that they were the people whom you wanted to get funding from in the ... 's distracting me from 2.004 studying). Here's how it started, with an e-mail to ... TO: Elizabeth, Michael would you two be interested in presenting

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  special program that teaches new immigrants how to speak English. In his ... material - not just getting the right answer, but understanding how to do it ... roommates at MIT. In addition to helping with the Infinity camp in June, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  first batch in summer 2017. Each of them will get hands-on mentoring as ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... doing a virtual dog simulator. Excited to see how these startups do. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us ... opportunity to revisit on our 20th anniversary. So, what’s the legacy? How has

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... MIT. Dreamers can continue their studies in the U.S. thanks to DACA ... , subject to renewal every two years and only in effect for the duration of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  . It was kind of shocking to me just how easy it was to get on air. My ... had to leave campus, and the resulting panic will go down in some ... some media to glue together in the event that a virtual CPW [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020