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  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  already took an electronic projects class, but also I'm not sure how much I retained. This also is not relevant to my studies and seems like an 'easier ... to each other in workshop discussions. Brief notes: This is NOT a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  experiments, we're trying to shed some light on how infants become social. In ... , though. And in a way, it was a mixed blessing to not be hired by the EMS ... Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  spaghetti to fajitas. My Indian roommate is also teaching me how to properly ... . München! I went to München! Or Munich. But München is more fun to say, and ... ago who claimed to be from München. So he will probably comment again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  fun extracurricular slate, there's not much you'd need to do until the ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly straggling onto campus, and I could not be more psyched. Rush/orientation is my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... postdoc with whom I work directly, Albert. I was still learning how to do all the different lab protocols, and since I didn't know how to do most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the ... one of them. Not declaring course 3 didn’t bother me because of how ... excited to study materials science. Not that I dislike software engineering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... Dubstep. Okay, so someone please tell how this is any better than music from ... identity in the not too distant past. And it’s also, at the same time, about

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  Frogger without even batting an eyelash. Please try not to get hit by a car ... need to hop on (especially helpful when you are in places that are not ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... about her--despite her insistence of being "not really a hacker," to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  parents will probably not want answers to the same questions that students ... , so don't be afraid to ask for their opinions...they know exactly how ... welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and whens of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  been busy e-mailing MIT sophomores to get an insider's take how to adapt ... physiology and psychology. "I've always wanted to know how the mind works ... , “which is not uncommon for them, but it also speaks to his personality — he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  three years, not giving a second thought to slopping my feet down all over ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to ... unbearable. (The ladder isn't attached to the loft, not even

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  how to answer this one. I'm thankful ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of my crash and how that might have affected the fact that I escaped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  trust them not to really stab him, etc. He also told us an amusing story ... So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . Boyd's mom says today is bittersweet because she's not looking forward to ... to the opportunities available in the United States and how anyone can ... ." And he also knows how to conjugate the verb "shunk." Of course neither

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  prefrosh from Uganda, and I’ll try to see how many prefrosh events I can ... experiences! Elizabeth K. '14 Don’t stress over not being able to do everything ... ? Like pudding? How about mega puddings? What about a GIGA pudding? Come to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to ... to see how it had turned out. Instead of seeing the wonderful picture ... time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  really want to do. Interesting walls do not make a person, and the money ... I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008