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  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the third week or so, which would make that test the “midterm”. I don’t like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  would shift again toward socializing in the coming weeks. All in all, I ... I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first ... to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to solve problems and the only thing I ever heard was "In high school

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... Aye, I'm back with more architecture adventures. I feel like all I ever blog about is architecture stuff - but who am I kidding - it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  everyone else's blogs. I would be happy to get feedback from my readers on ... philisophical essays about MIT, I start wondering if maybe my readers would rather just see some pictures of events after all. Though I think that I would

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a ... changes every weekday. GAMBIT Game Lab: Games created by MIT students. I ... on our website you're really just not trying. That's more of an opinion

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not ... website right now. On the off chance that you no longer remember your ... . Our office phone number is 617-253-4791. With that said, I'm now leaving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in-depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing ... in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done, which is kind of generically useful. In other words, I've always felt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... finals. As a lifelong strong-test-taker, I thought I would prefer final ... 13) I am in Seattle, in my parents' house, and more specifically in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... the little things that I'm pumped about, in no particular order: I ... . This entertains me because in the first month of quarantine, I went

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I felt last week on a scale of 1-10, I would have said negative 15 +/-2. On ... 15 +/-2, I would have given you a solid 9.5 and then offered to adjust

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... foam was all in disarray. If I were doing cool hard stuff, the way it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students ... on our journey, one which would take us across Boston and involve the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... grandmothers' house in the middle of the night. In the words of a great man, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... environment that would let me follow my own intellectual curiosity in intriguing ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies ... I would write about Fireflies.   So, I clicked on the “export

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / En Español

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT ... Weekend: do Latino parents feel welcome at MIT? I won't keep you in suspense for that question either, I don't know the answer. I would sure hope

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  've ever been so worn out in my life. I know a lot more quantum than when the ... Physics lab. Oh boy, where would I even begin. Some of the setup (the MIT ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007