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• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  the Harvard course number into the form. MIT will magically convert it ... letters), administrators at Harvard and MIT will approve it, and then voila ... you what those dorms mean, which one is the equivalent of Baker or East

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  , or multiple of 90-120 minute nap -- whatever leaves you feeling the most refreshed. (Pro tip for recovering from sleep schedule hacks and/or ... with your deity/ies. Commune with your friends. Blast music. (or make

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  several benefits. First, I don’t have a bedside table or shelf, which means I can’t bring my laptop or a book to bed unless I want it to fall out ... schedule. Remarkably I’ve started feeling rested on seven or eight hours of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  get in the habit of meal prepping or cooking [annotation note="if that ... usually more than happy to give you advice or help you out!"]regularly.[/annotation] Of course, sometimes you just don’t have the time or the energy to cook

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for ... photon flux by one-tenth or one-hundredth of a percent. Determining the ... pointing error, among other randomly or pseudo-randomly occuring disturbances

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and Sarah Kay Week 2: TableTop, Net Neutrality, and Complexity Theory   Humble Bundle/Boston Festival of ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... the good folks at Hopkins Insider for the idea): 1. In order, what were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  package on the April 1st date we were told?" Joe, I'll look into it. And Anon, include your email address (or name) the next time you comment so I ... the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  contractions to refer to everything, and it’s taken me two decades to realize no ... team with a good idea or a good team with a bad idea? There’s another ... resources and linked me to UPOP staff willing to help me find an internship

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  getting sick of dining hall food, or getting used to it. i will be eating ... stopped watching animated films past the age of sixteen. or films altogether ... makes it to round 1, the top 4500 people make it to round 2, the top 1000

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  problem, except that 1) it was 45 degrees and raining, and 2) I had no idea ... Street appears to take me south from this station. Therefore, I will walk ... discovered one last time I got lost in Camberville going to or from an alum

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... flushing noise" or "there are vending machines on quite literally every ... right or wrong. It's that oppressive, invisible feeling that someone is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  in Brigham Young's historic house (where, for the first time, I tied ... alumni volunteers (Educational Counselors, or ECs) there with me at the ... the USA Computing Olympiad, or USACO. As far as formal opportunities go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  , until you do, here are three things you can contemplate: DID YOU KNOW? 1 ... asks the Thermians whether they think "Gilligan's Island" is a historical ... get a free ticket. I rule. The movie is the most adorable thing you will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  I was told. You see, because, data, can be backed up, but 3 years ... whole year of junior lab data analysis on Athena computers. Including 3 separate instances in which I was booted for violation of some security or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  , good or bad. In any case, she urged me to go grocery shopping with her ... stock up on old standbys—Clementines, grapes, Kix, bread, peanut butter ... motored over to Shaw's Star Market, which is just under 1.5 miles from Next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  , the steps involved in making a hand turkey are as follows: 1.) Stock up ... .) Repeat. Or not. Whatever. 6.) Decorate! Observe! This is us making hand

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  laundry, change currency, buy travel books, and sleep. After a pizza lunch ... 't really done any laundry or things of the sort, so I had to rush ... fruit from the chinotto, or "myrtle-leaved orange" tree (Citrus aurantium

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  and spend more time at home, or travelling. Some of my friends are doing ... IAP classes include: Scheduling. IAP classes are a month long, or ... classes are also different. Some classes meet at a certain time two or three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  omit, and there will always be something left unsaid or lost in ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it ... ’s because I found a newer shinier idea to latch on to or because I couldn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021