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  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  Monday, my first semester here is abruptly coming to an end. I have ... fresh start. I really got to like all my professors this first semester ... challenge! On the most exciting note to me, I have spent the past three

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I ... intended to keep them that way. As the first exam week came, I failed the ... these models and what tickles them was the key to knowing how to solve

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  [/annotation]. One of the first projects that comes to mind is when we asked Alison to ... Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] (to scale)[/caption] The Bay Area is huge, which makes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... weekend was go down to the Hatch Shell on July 4th to see the Boston Pops ... he saw was exactly the same... but I'd be willing to bet that there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1400"] apologies for handwriting[/caption] To ... been built, so Building 5 is still the main entrance to MIT. We also see ... the center-left, we see a streetcar going to [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  for the first time afterwards and getting a little key tag with a ... the first time you went to Portland you had just discovered you liked ... summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  life returning to the Infinite. The new pre-frosh, sans pre, are arriving ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ) because there are research opportunities year-round, and we get to meet

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce ... fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  having a reason to look stuff up and learn things in the first place. I ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  . To get this, you audition (open to the entire community, from first ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... . sometimes i’ll write blog posts where i have a few key points i want to ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  to take to work the following day. I think the key, for me, is to not ... years ago! where has the time gone??"]first started[/annotation] blogging ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  pretty simple, maybe would only take about 2.5 hours to complete at first ... i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally ... great the first semester and did average around that second semester. so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  doing with yourself? First, you definitely don't need to know exactly what ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying ... allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023