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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  first came to MIT I started teaching through SPLASH, one component of the ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming ... MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  to ask directions, to the first person I saw in the midst of this ... Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I hear, this class was just created this year, and this is the first ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  .[/annotation] I remember the first time the world made sense to me was during ... /11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3"][/audio] I had a very difficult time my freshman ... 't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  first Cross-Continental Solar Car race. "One of the very most important ... to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class ... 2010. I am going to repost it as I wrote it: raw, and unedited, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  Horn Guy within my first 6 hours at MIT, then never talking to him again ... on his head. I remember the first time I went to Pour House, not on a ... finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  around 4:30PM before heading over to HMart to have our first meal of the ... and the beginning to a new, good week. My first plan was to work, since ... was going to fare in college. Being slightly socially awkward and

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

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first ... LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... major for my first ~2 years at MIT, so I didn't take it freshman spring

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  English as their first language and grew up in different cultures try to ... first place, because I was definitely too awkward to raise my hand and ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent ... , you won't get the result you want on your first try, but you have to ... sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... my situation, and feeling like it's my choices that brought me to where ... truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  , my first response is to say Missouri with a somewhat sheepish ... first stop).  In the weeks before I came to Cambridge, I was driving down ... .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  to conduct yourself in a legal, moral manner away for the first time ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005