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  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... so critically damped, in danger of tilting towards instability at any ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  consider IB and AP at the same level of course rigour? 40% of last year's AP ... grade i did well at school..i am into a lot of extra curricular activities ... . But there are a lot of things I do at home, just because I am interested

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  build stirling engines. At the end of 2.670 there would be a big ... plastic (other than the polycarb). At the end of it I had two of these ... to walk how we want it to. At the end of the month I'll try to write a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

  

  you, the stars who reside in it, are the microcosm of joy I stumbled ... pinhole lights as we drive for hours under the deep blue river of the Milky ... of your souls, dancing a unique and irreplicable flaming waltz

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of ... .112. Principles of Chemical Science, 18.022. Calculus, and 18.100B Real Analysis ... intervals on the same day. I call it Dark Thursday. Learning at MIT is hard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  Sugar Land (my city) that I can spend my last week of IAP at home ... I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  compensate for the lack of Oreo cookies at Aldi by substituting smashed-up Twix ... -Bonn airport at 10:15 AM, head out for Philadelphia by way of Frankfurt on my ... . Probably fail at that goal. Wednesday -- First day of classes! Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  .   Here is the inside of the Small Dome, or Lobby 7, just at the start of ... side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... . Full of food and full of caffeine we arrived at Copley an hour before the ... Boston pillow fight! Apparently there's some sort of pillow fight craziness

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I ... few weeks at MIT, both of the (old) laptops I had brought to campus ... tablet I'd snagged on ebay at the start of the summer). Although I've been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  lecture at MIT (9.65, Cognitive Processes), expecting the Lightning Bolt of ... around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... 't actually that funny at the time. Sorry, Dustin.) The point is that they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  this. Here's a picture of my new best friend I've already gotten a ... an hour long car ride back home for dinner at McMenamins. If you ... double bacon, two apple ciders, tater tots, and an extra order of fries

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  make us relax. We had no chance of winning, but when I glanced at my ... practices, of our trip to the local competition, at the attempt towards an ... the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of ... , regardless of what internet speculation sites have said. Really! Ruth's just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... Study: Continuous Data Stream of MIT Student Reveals Something  Department of Physical Education | Department of Biology Massachusetts

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly ... year" but in reality it's just where I'm at right now, which may or may

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... vulnerability lies not in my habit of smiling at strangers, but in two things: my ... the people I saw on the streets) of smiling at strangers like I already

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  examples of what I'm talking about. 1. Identify a question I begin by ... ' new laundry system? Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis Next, I ask myself what kind of data would be helpful to answering your question. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020