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  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  universe, aced both classes, and decided to major in Course 18." This story ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in ... U.S. Census, about 60 million Americans live in these rural spaces

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I ... unusually light—probably because the variety in my classes (algorithms

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a ... 's miniCooper, and installed it in our room. (I am unfortunately not kidding

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  robotics research internship in the UK :)   433 units taken Over my ... classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... I’ve taken a 9-unit Drawing class and been in a 6-unit music ensemble

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... highlights from the class so far: 1) Playing the organ in Kresge Auditorium 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a ... research in CSAIL; I joined a club on campus; and I’m leaving time to keep ... MIT”. In effect, this takes the form of organizing campus-wide social

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  how many cities you can name in the US, Europe, Asia, Africa or the entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... completely decimated west New York and Jess H. ’24 named the craziest cities in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  ’s offered in both semesters (albeit with two different professors) so I ... real-feel temperature with wind chill factored in at the time was -22 ... claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  out, but the fear of missing out. in mit, like in any other university ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in

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

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... the fall semester. In case you aren't from MIT, just as general ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now entering bring ... , and more that we'll check out later in this tour!   Roberts Field A ... varsity teams call Roberts home. In the fall, women and men's soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog ... - Fundamentals of Ecology i.e. everything I've ever wanted in a biology class here ... longer my cup of tea. Also we get to grow microorganisms in mud and water

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... -inch refracting telescope was the second largest telescope in the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... take care of yourself in a new environment without Mom and Dad around to ... little birdie! 2. Travel (Locally or not so locally) – In today’s world of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all second-semester seniors, but procrastination is not your friend in this ... . ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- Shameless CPW Plug #1: Meet The Bloggers Want to meet these guys in real life

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my friends in Course 3 have been able to answer. In the movie "Fantastic Four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  live my life normally —hell, the trust I had in the universe. I believed ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  It's 6:30am. The natural lighting floods in past the courtyard ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... than 6 months ago, I thought I'd stay in my old room until the day I died

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023