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  Cool Classes

  

  ?" Good question! First part first. Some of my favorite classes at MIT, from a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  class, a wide array of digital food and habit trackers, and work from when ... from a significant portion of the group once renovation comes around, i ... damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... for my life right now, I just lost a group stage match, but I still ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  M. '20!! As expected from a company that is essentially the second ... ranged from a guided negotiation session to building a skyscrapper with ... stuff! In no particular order, here is a list: 1) We went on an errand

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... 't know who made that gif (which is the inside of a room in Simmons Dorm, by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  was a good-natured team from Tel Aviv that we quickly befriended, and across the room, a team from Hong Kong and a team from the United Arab ... and their airplanes stuffed into a single Cessna hangar. There's the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  already knew a good number of my classmates from high school or from the ... . It's true that extreme MIT life is like drinking from a firehose; what ... first steps on MIT domain as a prefrosh, I actually spent a lot more time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... ? These people couldn't pick a better place for that? My friend Spencer picked me up from the airport. Our first stop: Walmart. Not exactly the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  a sense of value from it. No algorithm or studying heuristic, I think ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  , though, is interdiscplinary in nature and stems from a desire to establish ... " (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... then I would have just looked like a dumb freshman who wished her

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  recently won a $2,500 scholarship from the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach. Despite a demanding academic schedule, he still finds time for a social life ... , presented the scholarship to Kubber in a ceremony at the museum last month

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  signal. From there it was only a matter of entering my Athena usernname and ... from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  113 days. As of yesterday, I am officially a second semester senior. Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be ... month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... I am only a freshman, I have decided on a thesis which I will defend ... discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  Bekefi and Barrett from under a pile of crap. Luckily on the first page I ... an hour away from a couple of very nice beaches. Crane Beach in the ... in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  initially a bit of a struggle, but we picked up some basic vocabulary from our ... around the ruins of the Capitolum. We took a few samples of mortar from the ... over a paper from the 1800s regarding a mortar mix with lime, charcoal

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  for curves. another example could be (from The Shape of Space): take a ... classes only. it was a little intimidating at first, i have never taken only ... difference is that there is more room for a self-guided pace. concretely, this

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist ... from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  lying on when you’re really pooped from life and just need a break ... a used tram ticket from Hong Kong). Goodnight sliver of Massachusetts ... late nights are precipitated by something concrete and urgent: a pset, an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016