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  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some point—had to find a way to cook the ramen in the absence of kettles. We ... bit of ramen in those extended palms, a mother forced to feed children

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I ... class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... situations are, how each group has such a strong and rich culture to it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  'm just getting a stick figure to "walk", but we in the research world like ... allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... calligraphy class where you get to learn different strokes, characters and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  becomes cheaper to get it for the whole day, so we threw in a trip to IKEA ... And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... are hammering in morse code and are repreatedly trying to tell you ... for me to get into the class if only I showed up for class on the first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  get to everybody, but we'll try to answer as many questions as we can ... /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  to do the coding portions, it felt natural for me to get in the zone ... is from california, and as someone who went to high school in minnesota ... branded it as bubble tea. i loved that place in high school, but compared to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... is for getting students to go to Harvard's sports events. We had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  in the Burton Conner TV room, but after an hour of failing to get the ... e d ! ! ! ! 8) Allan: I went to a freind's housewarming, and in true introverted fashion, quickly met someone to talk to while we began partaking in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the ... getting myself into. The syllabus sounded interesting, and I wanted to do

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  large swathes of time to feel and think deeply at MIT. When you’re in a ... time to cry. This fucking pset is due in an hour. Maybe you’ll crystalize ... and getting to witness the vibrant art, poetry, and theater scenes of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  given day. We get off talking about just how screwed up black holes are ... recapped the whole semester in preparation for the final. To the tune of ... to go to class. ("Next Monday, I promise!") Great! Good. Get into MIT

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  drawing and tell the machine exactly how to make your part by defining the ... engines: To see a video of my engine running, click here! I didn't get it to run in time for the speed competition, but afterwards I worked on it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  out how the paper was meant to be written: if only I had checked in ... initiative and courage to get help, and appreciate it. In an e-mail I received ... want to work on in the future to make your writing better." Issues I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  sometimes or know how to fold their clothes in a more efficient way. I ...  need. Check if there's an in-house washer and dryer, if that is important to you ... this happens, you tend to bottle yourself in and hide away in your room

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth birthdays were events she wanted to forget, and how she sometimes had to make

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... that way, since the obvious option is to major in something I liked to ... . Fingers crossed that it gets approved. In the meantime, I officially

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022