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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  happened, but the bottom line is that now math kind of freaks me out a little ... . Hmm. Well, I'm almost sure there's a tour of the Media Lab (which is the ... work and give me actual problems he faced that day to test my geometry

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

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  returning to the varied work you'd done before. As a group of juniors and ... answers to, so a docent would've been nice; and in contrast to the glass ... the stunning variation in rock color and shape -- this is only a tiny

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  're a brand new man, and the brand new you is confident, composed, and ... friends can't be that hard. All you have to do is say hi, shake hands, and ... waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  environment brings me back to who I used to be; and that version of me is ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  ’d like to pretend that I was a hard working kid who studied a lot and did ... remembering that I had a calc test the next day as I laid in bed, and then ... experienced, and that’s why Freshman Fall term is Pass/No Record (a.k.a Pass

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  , there’s definitely a reason. And if you decide to come here, you can go to ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  in Boston for the summer is a very, very good idea. I got to get to ... I have a billion things to say about this semester already and I ... Spending a lot of time in the Unified Lounge (Unified is a course 16 class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted ... looking over to the side and seeing what's going on elsewhere. Oh, good. Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe ... to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I ... is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  huge, huge silver lining is that I've had the chance to formally live ... of that, the summer after senior year tends to be a bit of a slow one ... , "s") to a long word ("animal") and for that turn I would receive points

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  argue a lot about whether or not greek life is the right solution to that ... somehow. That should show how important it is, both to the students and the ... skills (though that definitely improved a lot too). It was the ability to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... .: that is, a year before June 25, 2010... It's perhaps shocking and quite ... that's a different topic (and one of the less fun reasons I've been so

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

   but a small bit of me is very very sad right now and i'm trying to make ... called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  . The Hyatt is located between 3rd & 4th Streets and Tijeras and Copper ... , and Ian '10 address the crowd. On Wednesday night, I went out to dinner ... finally, Ian, Manuel, Zihao, and Reynaldo (MIT '10s). Intel ISEF is a huge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  the most rewarding part about my PE class is that I found a form of ... to take them. But indeed, there is a PE requirement instituted as part ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  harder to record the b-roll and other footage, and I wanted a video that ... problem and take a clear stance on that issue, i.e.: to produce an activist ... him the numbers. He told her that a lot of students and even professors

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... staying on campus to UROP that summer, and really didn't like the idea of us ... smoothly and we felt that we got a lot out of the experience! Since, we did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is ... as a tool for topology, it is interesting to look deeper into the actual algebra and gaining intuition for that.  The professor is a great

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

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... three finals in a row in the exact same set of clothing. Make your own

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009