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  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  than I thought it would be, which is a good thing. Sleep is important ... taking and trusting that somehow in the future, I would eventually graduate ... semesters, I would only have to take 3-4 classes to graduate in the spring of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  after were good. So now I'm back here, learning how to not be burnt out ... As evident from my last blogpost, I'm doing a lot and it's taken a toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head, I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I noticed a funny question on the invitation and was so intrigued that I knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... students just how awesome the humanities and arts are here. I had great ... Very frequently, we are asked about the humanities and arts at MIT. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the ... special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  is में (encoded as \u092e\u0947\u0902). THING I WROTE: so how can we ... ALBUM: i like it when you sleep for you are so beautiful yet so ... civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent ... comprised of C-130s. Thirteen other cadets on the visit and I were split up ... different squadrons to get a broad view of base operations. I was lucky enough

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  would HIGHLY recommend taking Organic Chemistry I (5.12) the second ... Hello all! I've been a horrible blogger, please forgive, but I have amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade ... parts are back at school today - I dropped my brother off at school this morning, meaning I woke up at 7:15 (the horror!). The house is empty and I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  . As such, I've started developing a plan for how to keep myself occupied ... how to do a bunch of 2.005 so I don't fail it next semester 3) Work on ... who have already packed. They get to do this: I am not one of those

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  MIT philosophy. Finally, a note on the classic how did I get here story ... Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  sight to enjoy. It's kinda crazy how I've already finished two years ... official commencement page.) I'm really excited for this summer though. I ... supposed to be a lot of fun. I'll be testing that hypothesis. Aside from

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  childhood, and how a documentary I worked on for weeks was a total failure ... , to fangirl, and maybe to show how MIT can become a home for fellow I ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  weird and I don't know anything about it, except that it's residence based. I was lucky enough to be assigned to my first choice advising seminar, MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  see how much I internalized their styles and flows unintentionally ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  . I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term ... jazz (and confession, I've actually taken most of it once before I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer ... elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them. Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  how hectic my schedule is I always make time to hang out with my friends ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012