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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . This is a great class, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone with an ... , and to the best of my knowledge its true nature is still a mystery). A ... Mechanics is a "deeper" theory of reality than classical mechanics, yet in the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... captains of our own destinies, but transitioning into college is a test you ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... , which is why i'm not completely bummed out about the class. but i am a bit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author ... How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... . So, in a way, there’s more of them in me than me. And that is both

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  (I'd say Clueless is a more faithful adaptation of Emma). The largest ... Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy ... (and most expensive) movie theater. When I walked in, I saw a big crowd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  questions: "What is the dark stuff?" and "How do you think about such a ... matter" like stars and galaxies. The other 95 percent of the universe is a ... who receive a "big envelope" in the mail, it's not because we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  ) Space is, for lack of a better word, neat[3]. Last semester, in 8 ... . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is ... age, and is flying away from our own galaxy as a whole at X kilometers

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... thinkers alike. It is a conglomerate of undergraduates and graduate students ... creating a giant dustpan float (out of bicycle boxes to keep the theme) and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  just curious, how much does being a Siemens Westinghouse Semifinalist and ... she graduates from but by how much a'better' person he or she has become ... on the SAT writing section debate, if there really is a debate, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  into annoyance and dread. This is basically what happened with 18.01A and ... .08, Joe Steinmeyer, is a pretty chillaxed, funny guy who gave a pretty ... and I was able to follow along easily. Our lecturer is a pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  I think is a grammatically proper question, but not a socially proper ... Laura is gonna be taking care of it for a while. It's way too long of a ... a dialup connection and your computer is powered by, like, a hamster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually. Apparently a credit score is a thing that people care about here. The thing is ... credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  little kids? Lemme tell you a lil' secret: They're just as much fun as ... Mobile." The bike looks kinda sloppy, but underneath all the blue is a large oak ... during the race. The creativity of all the bikes had a lot to do with how

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of ... conversation I had with my grandpa before I left for MIT: Gramps: "Now don't be a ... like seeing that I expected to be studying a lot of the time. Would we

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  learning. Meaning that the curriculum is structured around a level of ... nobody went to her office hours and how she sat around and ate a sandwich ... understanding from the fabric of the universe is like pretending to be a salmon

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a rigorous four-week summer academic experience that introduces 20 high school
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  shared a guest post by Sam U. '16 about how MIT helped him launch his ... stay organized while writing this post about Fireflies. Fireflies is a ... write a follow up in one or two days about how I used Fireflies to help

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017