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• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is ... . Conveniently enough, my UROP is in Building E25, almost right next to Senior Haus

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to ... experience CollegeConfidential is more a source of stress and nervousness and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  focus in again on a single major. One of MIT's great qualities is the ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... point. Anyway, that's how I decided on pursuing both 7A and CMS. 7A is a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning ... to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  than the usual complement in any given limb. [this is a villain, by the ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... hands can go only so many hours in a given week -- but also I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a ... a daily basis. ;-) Back at East Campus, Greg basks in the "ambient ... lurking behind a pillar. Here's Greg again -- he sauntered in to enjoy the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  answer is, of course, both. Unfortunately, regular labs are infeasible in a ... the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three ... “Is Engineering Education Obsolete?” One and a half years ago, Anette

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... with a different counselor, until someone put me in physics C. And then I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... smiled a lot, which is neither what you do in Denmark nor what you do in a ... 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 / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... suppose what I’m trying to say is that, in the past two and a half years of ... . In retrospect, such a statement is obviously silly. The reason that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  group of people can form a legitimate support system is just incredibly ... like support systems are a luxury you can indulge in if you have them ... constitutes a “good person”, but because i believe in my bones that chunks of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  cool in-universe? is he a serious character? the author is dead, so they ... hadestown is a tragedy. the narrator, hermes, tells you this in the ... compelling stories; in other words, a storyteller is a bullshit artist in the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  tuned in to her feelings, while he is a kid who frequently feels angsty or ... : Apocalypse came in the form of a deadly pandemic, and now the world is reduced ... Dreams, and his encounters with people in the waking world. It is a wild

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20 ... stop drawing free body diagrams; this is an exercise in introspection. No ... memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  post is by necessity a work in progress, so I'll be adding to the list ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  ) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan ... Business Schools. Dr. Aggarwal's expertise is in the areas of initial public ... microstructure. She has authored numerous articles on initial public offerings in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  he played The Fonz in Happy Days). 20.441 is probably my favorite class ... things like that). So basically, this is a class on learning... HOW TO MAKE ... . And also, in case you missed it last time - I'm doing a Q&A video

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... the technical shapes them. The internet, in particular, is an artifact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... /minors I am graduating with, and that is a learning moment for all the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  there’s a GRT in it with a lot of Canadian pride). The building is very ... or relationships, because in a community, one is not necessarily close ... life might have. MIT is different in a lot of ways from other schools

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015