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

  

  a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I ... another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big ... then I would have just looked like a dumb freshman who wished her ... maybe, Sam is just a big cheater.) I've been thinking about writing this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  prefrosh (sorry that this quiz is so late lol). I dormspammed the survey in ... store as what they can't live without. Random is a cook-for-yourself dorm ... 's attractions is being one of two dorms with built-in AC. 83.3% — Random, also

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  sunny as it is, this never happened much. There were a few memorable days ... , and you get rowers who row, sleep, eat and watch tv. Repeat. It was a ... dolphins. After a tumultuous journey home due to bad weather in Philadelphia

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  consists of emfs and resistors into: an emf plus a resistor in series (Thevenin), or a current source plus a resistor in parallel (Norton). They ... heat anyway. (and the "resistor" in a source like that isn't really even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  here's a blogpost from my friend julia! Hey! My name is Julia Pockat and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... ://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/people-color-and-eating-disorders"].[/annotation] People who have eating disorders are just attention seeking: This is a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  Alfred Wallace, who sent a letter to Darwin describing a similar idea one ... built a special second stadium in addition to the Olympic Stadium, with ... touristy, yeah, but it was great to get the lay of the land in such a huge

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  people who may also like to point out that I haven't blogged in like two ... .) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  turned in a problem set that was 47 pages long. CPW rocked it, yo. Special ... ago in a truly beautiful display of stamina and finesse. Among her many accomplishments, Alicia has a perfect 5.0 GPA, is headed into the PhD program at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  , randomly, after turning in an 18.01A pset about a week ago. Certainly, the ... Building 6C (a Course 3—Materials Science and Engineering—building) is giant ... Rainbow Floor actually has a real name**; but it is, sadly, quite lame. You

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  . We have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  might in a static plot. Making visualizations is my favorite part of the ... the Numbers What is it like to climb a 20-story building 22 times ... straightforward or quite tedious. The data might exist already, neatly compiled in a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... , actually. I love biology and I'm thinking about majoring in 6-7, which is CS and molecular bio, so 7.015 is a good time and I like that it's a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I saw and who I met. Tucson, AZ (A.K.A. Wildcats & Mr. Rattlesnake ... and Math who rolled into the library 50+ strong! Talk about a warm

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  with his dad and Col. Pete Young, who's a senior lecturer in the Aero ... GIRs, while a student who does a major and a minor is still only required ... Biomedical Engineering and Comparative Media Studies. She is, in fact, a beast.)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  , Rachel is fighting fires, both in the trenches (as a volunteer firefighter ... :  Anastassia B. from Miami, Florida. Anastassia, like Abe Lincoln, was born in a ... the admissions office a handmade card, cut carefully from a starmap, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  a look: Amazing Guest Lecturers Dr. Harish Hande is a pioneer in ... that is represented in the student body. Everyone comes here with a story ... reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020