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  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  semester only to fail my first class at MIT. Final exam scores were released ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the "last word" in transportation. He had originally told his coworkers to ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... also went to the Bo Burnham-Jonny Sun event I blogged about my freshman

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4 ... trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to ... alternative pasts, and still may have alternative futures.   To give you a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  campus. For some of the puzzles, the first challenge is trying to figure ... 1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  ." And thus the 3am coding competition was born. First we had to set (sorry ... card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  the room to see who was presenting first. This caught my attention ... I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively ... hoping to ski--there's not really snow anywhere in North America. But some

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week ... , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 (To be done before you come): Figure out the big questions that you have ... , faculty, and anyone else you manage to meet. Rule #1: If you're paying for

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing ... -and-white television screen bolted to the wall.) POLK: (covers the mouthpiece; jerks ... turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  Jimmy memories. Two stories come to mind to exemplify what Big Jimmy meant to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my ... students passed away. James E. Roberts Sr. was known as "Big Jimmy" to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  assigned me to the grad student whose study he thought I'd be most helpful with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a ... with quarantine prompting my former weeb tendencies to resurface, I've started to think about how my relationship to it has changed. Guys, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  concern wasn't about the academic workload. "When I first decided to come ... . Winston links to. Enjoy! Always Moving Forward by Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  you think the entry sucks, keep your mouth shut. =P First let's start with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021