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• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college ... mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the ... trying to figure out a) what maths after calculus looks like, and b) if I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last ... one of my MITFAC emails, I was warmly invited to a free sustainable

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be ... with an "Imma let you finish!" and a transition to Kanye West ... 's Leadership Brunch, I got a chance to speak with some of the female admits to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... of their program. A company representative at a career fair came to MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star ... most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day ... sleeping in until 11 AM; I then rode my bike to the Student Center and ate a ... time to blowdry my hair normally. In fact, I don't even own a blow dryer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial ... required sections, however, it quickly turned to panic. What started out as a ... . There is no better way to learn engineering than a better engineer tearing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... , a free car, and the right to name a state park after themselves. Some

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  comes to the rules of society (or subsets thereof), I am often (at best) a ... paper. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s to be expected. Most social circles ... relationship with is more likely to become a part of your social circle if they

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... to eat dinner at Ling Ling, which, as much as I hate to admit, was a ... restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  many calls that I ended up making a spreadsheet to rank all the hold ... speak to a human.  [caption id="attachment_118904" align ... offer a view of Mt. Hood. I was excited to go to Portland for a totally

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to ... responded saying he’s too busy this semester to be a supervisor Decide to go ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  from my group's final presentation to a scene in Waiting for Godot   It's felt quite anti-climatic to be done, a feeling that seems to ... celebrate a bit, go out with friends, treat yourself to a good night's sleep

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ... say that the GEL 2s devote at least ten hours a week to help plan each ... calls upon the GEL 2s to conceive and operate a unique ELL. We started

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New ... for no other reason, because I got to have a 13-word conversation with ... threat to America?" I mean, once you hear my question it's kind of a judge

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting ... 'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to ... to San Francisco with my boyfriend CV, who just graduated and has a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... if cycle time has gotten much faster, then it might be a good time to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... machines: plus a computer lab with solid modeling and CAM programs to ... are set up to allow a computer program to operate it. CAM stands for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has ... i spent a while researching symptoms and trying to understand what was going on, but it turns out this is actually a normal response to stress

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022