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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  freshman student, I decided to jump in and get started on problem 4, just to ... MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... with since I'd done really well in BC calc, but decided to take anyway. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  still lingered in the back of my mind. no matter how hard i tried to ... a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms ... culinary master, cooking meals left and right in random hall. i was going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  needed to get back in shape. With the desire to end my career on a better ... . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... way to take the train and then the bus to get to the rink from my dorm

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  who have already packed. They get to do this: I am not one of those ... MIT and commuting to Rhode Island to work in Hasbro's modeling department I wasn't expecting to get really upset about people leaving but it

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... you get here, since it's sure to be legendary by the time you get here for orientation: You're supposed to read it in four rhyming lines, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  probably lead her to shoot me, and she might get me before I got her (in ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  other to get in our petition forms, and it was exciting because it totally ... experience - you get stranded on this island in Massachusetts Bay, have these ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... in Science at MIT was finally released to the public in 1999 (referred

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of ... with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a ... of which I decided to avail myself while preparing for my class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  something you use to eat a meal at a dining hall. people who live in dorms ... people standing in front of the cashier, waiting to just tap anyone in. food, in general, is a nice way to express care for someone else. there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... ’s another diagram (you may need to zoom in), this time with 27 test subjects

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  , in fact, qualified and smart enough to get through it. I don't have a ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending ... something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact ... ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... . :-) Hmm. In all this talk about dining, I didn't get to the second part of ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  to talk to / get to know we’re analyzing a film in literature and ... to get along with people here than I did with people in high school ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  . We are currently 6-1 in conference play and getting ready to begin the ... great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and ... thoroughly explored chemical compound and then getting to perform any reactions ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  alums happy to talk about what they majored in, where they lived, and what ... students throw their hat in the ring because they have nothing to lose! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided ... to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get ... that the bike wasn't going to fall. In fact, it looked pretty cool up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... surprise, and I expected it to be all better when I take classes in my major ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013