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• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  ’ll be in a community of people that can pick me up and (literally!) put me ... On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to ... COMPOSED THIS PIECE OF 1600-1800 MUSIC ?!?! I wouldn't be able to answer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has ... , waiting to be let back in. You can actually hear the Simmons fire alarm from my kitchen, which is what happened a couple of weeks ago. I heard an

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , none of the friends I had who were in high school. And then I hung out ... competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... experience of being in college with them. He tells me that I’m overthinking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  my bike, but I haven't seen it in any of the normal places I go, so I ... though. I always miss all the good stuff in the Midwest - last year while I ... now, though, it's byooootiful. The kind of weather I'd like to ride my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of ... campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys!

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  and quickly sort a very large list of numbers? It turns out that we can--in ... % accuracy (i.e. in 99 runs out of 100, ALG will produce a correctly sorted ... comparator that works 80% of the time, which we can use in ALG. Before diving

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... competition I participated in late last year (in May of 2004). Now that I ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... park at the rest stop itself or just stop in the middle of the highway ... 'm forgetting, but these should get you started. Anyone know where I can get a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... chin in direction of the aardvark) Case 815. PIERCE: Case 815 ... turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  article for all of our readers, but for our LDS readers in particular, I ... Terence '13 Christy '13 At the end of the article about Sean, I've attached ... Institute of Technology next year. In addition, he will play baseball

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster ... ). Juggling is fun. I hadn't gone in a while. I spent a lot of time playing with ... Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  view of what I do when I'm not sleeping, or walking, or in class, or ... nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered ... . We were in the Du-Pont Multipurpose Room, which, like the Room Of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... -- so you can gather opinions from many sources.) I should note that there ... you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... studying pulsars. PULSARS!!! I can't wait. </NEWSFLASH> Twisted as this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  dancing. Don't know when I'll stop. It's a different kind of excitement ... do well in my interviews before I'm accepted, but it's nice to have ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... strange to declare my major. When I walked out of the Course 9 Undergrad ... was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010