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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being ... that about 30% of us were going to be kicked out of the class by the end

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A ... side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support their position. The three professors in favor of the hamentashen were

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  range of people, with a similarly broad array of interests, passions, and ... opinion, this diversity is one of MIT's greatest strengths. Although I could probably fill an entire entry about the incredible variety of people I've met

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  college has books. Books come from one of three places: Internet, Library, or Bookstore. Which of these three am I going to talk about? Well, I ... the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  As part of the 2011 Early Action Telethon, today I had the opportunity to talk to some of the prospective members of the Class of 2011 ... house and suck them out of you. No, really. I fully acknowledge that it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers ... summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which ... Office/Grey's Anatomy, and went to four hours of straight classes followed by three hours of MedLinks training, but I got pushed off the front of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real ... seniors all made fun of me and my blog, which makes them so uncool. Tsk tsk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  of free time thinking about possible experiments and troubleshooting ... has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT ... Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  This is Akash: Akash is the president of the Class of 2009 (like ... all know, today was the premiere of a much-anticipated movie. What movie is that? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, of course! One

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  handful of questions I'm almost always asked. So, what I'm going to do is answer three of the most frequently asked questions here and now, so that you don't have to ask (not that I mind questions). All of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  might be, are spending more and more of their precious childhood ... begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the ... life. It wasn't any of the fancy (really cool) summer programs I blogged

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... a sweater. I walked out of BC towards Baker’s dining hall. And I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  a week of high school, I felt strange pangs of loneliness more often than ever. I wrestled with this sense of isolation and alienation a lot, particularly during first semester; part of it stemmed from trying to find the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... different. There’s so many types of puzzles, ranging in shape, color, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... idea of a long-distance bike trip caught my attention. I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023