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  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I ... 've got a shit ton of other stuff and I figured they were worth sharing, so here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous years for the classes of interest (thanks Cameron!) because if I’m going

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  invest in. I found out about them from one of my friends, Yasyf M. '17, who ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  set online using our floor funds! My roommate Kunal is a communications major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of all, I checked my exam grade for 18.01 on-line. Then I started running ... , I'm doing better in 3.091 too! Sort of. Just remember, it's all about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured ... employment of my high school friend Ryan at Doc Holliday's. 3. Every Friday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So I register online and the second step of the registration tells me to ... , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  online. As part of it, I got to dress up as Watson 2.0. My favorite other ... organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports Illustrated, or Cosmo, or even Wine Spectator (if you're a special kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... other blog posts (you can even check out my first post, The Land of MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... wanted to get an extra letter of recommendation from my boss at work ... kind of supplemental material that is very useful. I look forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  This week was surreal, like turning pages in a book of moving ... Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a former MIT professor and current professor of African-American Studies and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  was (and continues) to be a part of a lot of my online identity: Gmail ... In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I ... /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  not get a great view of, partially on account of the darkness, and partially on account of the fact that everything bright in Burlington was ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... of spring and what I learned, what knowledge I gained, and I can show you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... some truth to both of those explanations, but i think another relevant factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8.021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade ... shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  of IAP 2010. For those unfamiliar with IAP (Independent Activities Period), it’s basically the whole month of January during which …MIT ... for a better idea ‚Üí Overview of IAP 2010 From what I've heard, some

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  easily frustrated by lack of progress, or by people who seem more content ... come up with a word to succinctly describe this aspect of my personality ... it's this part of my personality that's secretly behind my not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009