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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... major options left. And now I’m (almost) officially a double major in ... ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I ... . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  would end most days unhappy about how I had spent it. Many of the long ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really ... professor both personally and professionally. How else would you find out that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  engaging in social activities would have felt pretty lonely. More broadly, I ... intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing ... about how MIT students spent their days in classes, clubs, or hobbies, so

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  stuffed full in my brain. At this point, I had realized just how stressful ... sleep, how I would avoid COVID, when I would get to Boston, if I had ... everything that I’d done wrong in the airport, and how I could have fixed it

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  than the norm. i think i would like to live in boston - i like boston a ... i mentioned this in my previous blog post about LA, but let me ... sleep in till 7:45"]i usually leave at 7:33 to catch the 7:51 bus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... Jean Grey vaporized him in X3. That was awesome. Also, I like how at the ... how I started this entry three days ago but sometime betwee now and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  be smart and I knew how much I liked the people in the admissions ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in admissions. To tell the truth, I didn’t know one could have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  fine tip, I would pick up paint in such a way that it would form a bead ... attempt. While working on this, I would take breaks and scratch in this ... childhood show. You can read how much I really like Avatar in my other blog

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I ... ? Finally, have I mentioned lately how much I love xkcd? If you're still

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to check on him. There would be some bubbles. I would add flour and water ... didn't rise quite as much as I would have wanted). It was delicious! But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  your lingering concerns? Etc. Anonymous asked, "How do I go about ... 's written in the CalTech website how students studying Biology find themselves doing questions which Physics majors do in other universities. Just how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how I was going to graduate in any reasonable time, and in which degree ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... [/caption]   Everyone who knows me knows how much I loved and admired ... community - In both 6.034 and 6.803, he would either start the class with an

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was ... couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... I'm not sick and just go about my normal things because I would rather

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024