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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... my learning. And, the most recent pset was about space cows—how cool is ... Political Science majors, truly prepares you for future research. It is also a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  consistent enthusiasm is difficult) into a fancy microphone, and painstakingly ... ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  -to-five and complaining about how hard it is to land a decent job. and sometimes ... how so much of what i'm doing came from just watching others, but it is ... going to rehearse scenes without a stage to perform in? how were they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... , (Look how smiley Raphael is! And look at his sweet NASA bag!) This is CL

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... ’s a compilation of thoughts/feelings/things I’ve done over the past (oh my god) 2 months??? 1. I’ve been stress baking a lot and made a recipe

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  've gone to a medlink, if it was worse. how much worse, though? i don't know ... how much people mind being around someone who is/was sick. what if i no ... second season of haruhi is notorious for its endless eight, a series of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... corona-exodus, which left us with a big question: how do we run science

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... Mezrich's original book. It is quite fascinating to see how they came up ... . Compared to movies like Ocean's Eleven or Casino Royale, 21 is more like a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... 't heard much about it until you've heard it from an MIT student - and a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  The Summer…? Every Story is a Story That Ought To Be Shared As much as I ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three ... it getting chaotic? How do I make sure that there is variety to the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  told enough how hard it is. I came in hearing “yeah, no one gets an A ... attend as a prefrosh. But this is really fun as an MIT student, too~ I ... what that’s ok. It is ok. Many people have failed a class, or even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  : Getting Our Money's Worth of 'Healthness.'" What is healthness (not a typo ... Health Organization.) This is appalling; we consider ourselves to be a ... health is a strategic national investment, and that we’re at a tipping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue, surprisingly unassociated with a heaping workload Being miserable (much more ... Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... : Just how would I break the search engine?" said Smith, 18, a Hollis ... 's award-winning dance program ("Dance is a sport here . . . the MVP of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  the 2006 World Cup is "a time to make friends." Who wouldn't want to be ... the Hofbräuhaus, which is probably a little like Durgin Park in Boston ... . In München, the standard size for any beverage is 1 liter, pretty much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... place is just a front for a DARPA-funded human breeding project. However ... likely of which is that the admissions office here has a somewhat unhealthy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  realizing how much of a shitshow the movie was, we switched to Pitch Perfect ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I ... psetted for 18.01 (because I'm a dumb bitch that procrastinates far too much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  semester I realized how precarious it is to strike a balance between being a ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy!’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  his Virtual CPW Project is a great way to conclude this entry ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... Palm Beach, and tomorrow is meeting #3 in South Miami at 11am. A full ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005