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  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I designed as my group members snuck micro-naps in the back. The ... running around New York trying to cram in as many experiences as I could ... material! And now I'm back on campus settling in and trying to feng shui

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  importance of collaboration originated from my work in theater long before I ... Today after the admissions info session in Kresge (where it also took place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  year, however, I didn't notice any special curriculum. In fact, in 2 ... I got in and am doing the work. As long as I try my hardest, work hard ... MIT is hard. BUT . . . since it feels like I've only been writing

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  'm excited that I'll be sharing other people's experiences in the future with ... from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... it out. Did you know blustery was a word? I didn't. I got an email

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  . Every hobby I picked up, except blacksmithing, lives in this room. My jewelry supplies are still in the desk drawer, though I've taken my best ... , carved long ago into different paths: the 3-mile loop I ran in high school

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I ... dorm dining halls (currently only open for dinner), students who live in ... halls. And even with this in place, MIT still has had to subsidize dining

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society conference in Florida! The view from our hotel room. As its name indicates ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  illustrate it, but I thought it would be a neat challenge to illustrate it and ... expressionless.   CAPTION: In the 9th grade… CAPTION: I learned about Bohr ... I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  This past summer I worked at Le Laboratoire, an experimental art-science space in Paris. I helped to curate an upcoming art exhibition ... allowed me to take a mental break from nuclear engineering in between

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  that I should've worked harder in my classes, even though I also know ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  'm respectfully crufting in the background. But every August - when I start hearing ... remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock ... staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  . In fact, joking aside in the previous thread, I honestly don't know yet who got in - with rare exception, I couldn't bring myself to look ... Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  getting it in under 100 guesses is “decent”, and I’m pretty happy with under ... #14 took me over 300 tries D: (I've also witnessed people get it in ... Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Waverly, just in time to check out the course before the sun set. (I'm going ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I ... opposition to my previous claim. In any case, I have to say the grey sweaters

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin' nerdtastic that I wanted to read at the dinner table... I DIGRESS. The point

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  peanut butter, bread, and Nutella (in case France declares war, I guess ... hallucinations of a McDonald's worker on NyQuil, so I departed to my floor in ... Tonight, I emerged from a coma of essay-writing and unglued my gaze

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  , and one chemistry. They're all pretty similar, structurally. In fact, I ... [annotation note="Most examples in this post are from classes I've taken, so it ... everything in between. Weights could vary significantly. I think there was once

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  Last night, my roommate and I ventured (slightly) beyond MIT's campus ... Danes, Jason Schwartzman, and Steve Martin star in this supposed comedy ... spends her nights reading novels and making charcoal drawing in her dark

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005