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• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer ... winter still astonishes me. Okay, the air is spicy and the sky darkens much ... "just trust that this works." But I like how this class had a flipped

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  ANTS. What is even edible in a DVD box? Do I even want to know? Mike just ... are you?" and she checked out "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days" but I don ... hope he is accurate. 11:53 -- Mark '09 passes down en route to pick up a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anything else, I should give a disclaimer that this post is based on ... salty sports drink without much sugar” Is this safe??: ?/10 “May be

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ; Cognition, which is a joint major between computer science and brain & ... for 2023 is Jan 9th, so you might still have a few days). That was my ... major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold ... the chemical is made of and how they are bonded together ... material and then measuring how much the material absorbs/transmits the light

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  How smart am I? I feel like I’ve asked myself this question a ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  application. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay response box from the Part 2. The Midyear Update has a maximum of 250 words ... working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  trained, so I feel much more qualified to write about it! It's a ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... website and puts them into a much more readable format, where you can sort

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  readings much more than 18.03. On a cheerier note, CPW is coming up! Here ... literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and ... , of learning how to cook and work and clean and enjoy your life in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  year later—and post a part 2 later reflecting on how MIT has both changed ... restaurant back in 2003. There’s a[annotation note="which is better described ... same time, however, it’s undeniable how much time it takes away from my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  perfect in this case. After a few weeks you figure out how much food you ... Adelaide!) A caution cape is also exactly what it sounds like: At the party ... runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... gingerly begin packing my last box. Some pictures. A couple of 3D

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made ... no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Thursday morning (Penn State gets a much longer Thanksgiving break than us). Thanksgiving for me is the beach, yoga classes twice a day, and almost absolutely ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a reminder that you care about some things, regardless of how much you say you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  a solid "yes" or "no", rurality is much more nuanced than that ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  out is an incredibly stressful process. We are still figuring out how ... stuff that the little stuff is just that much harder to take ... otherwise do not have a home that is safe to go to). And MIT has offered

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at ... the Data. the Data is a CSV, which stands for Comma Separated Values ... picked up a brown paper bag with a grilled chicken sandwich, and sat down

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016