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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  into lalaland’ (the way that a line tangent to a circle moves with the ... : ‘There exists’ is just a fancy way to say ‘there is,’ while simultaneously making the syntax way more complicated than necessary. It’s just a way to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... semester 21W.758 was a class that covered a multitude of genres but stuck to ... transitioned to comics by deciding, after drawing Demonology 101, that was a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... heart palpitations (yes, this is a not-even-slightly-veiled reference to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  during term). I ended up with a B+ in my HASS (9.00, intro to psychology ... -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... a few people who decide not to take the class, so it's worth showing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... situation. For a month, my father would try to call home only to get an ... of the people I refer to as “international”, though, have a very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building

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

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... was just… there.  during winter break, i went to new york city for a ... at MIT and coming back, i would come to a constant.  during

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  , so I moved to Tetazoo, home of yet another blogger. I had a good time ... decided about a week ago to go ahead and do it. My decision process went ... to split the cost of a Zipcar, move my stuff back to Burton-Conner, and

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... sorely needed the experience. It took a long time for me to realize that ... /or volunteered to do it on their own - a particularly difficult pset, a band

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... ; Scott proceeded to explain FOMO, a very valid and prevalent fear among MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... about it from a random e-mail (probably sent to all of the dorm mailing ... order to get to their favorite restaurants. After a couple days of touring

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... strategic locations as to create the most natural and flattering look for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by ... algorithm understand taste Comments from the blogger: i listened to a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was ... everyone has to take to graduate"]GIRs[/annotation] and a class essentially ... multivariable calc before, but that turned out to not put me at a disadvantage

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to ... the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  admission to MIT this year. This is a 4% increase from last year. Since most ... with MIT's mission to make the world a better place. We deferred ... and were not able to be considered. We recognize it's a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005