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  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on participation, and the remaining 5% on some in-class assignment that is supposedly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three ... 'll give you all a few days to work on it, then I'll tell you the funny story

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we ... , but I'm summarizing because this is a live-blog. As such, on to a ... off some admissions stats (all of which are available on this website

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  to comfort movies and shows or start something new. reading is also ... [annotation note="please be nice to them"]Grant,⁠ or someone from our admissions ... show. probably one of the more wholesome kind, or reading a good webcomic

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  't even allowed to read, which is lame because my little brother is allowed ... , learning how to play chess is still on the to-list, along with learning how ... 't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second ... 'd like you to meet someone new, though -- This is my gigantic freshman ... .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We ... how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to ... 't allowed to take photos of most of the things we saw. So I'll take it from

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  early on Saturday morning (by which I mean about 11 am, of course), we got ... kneeling on wood chips, etc. which Anika and I faced, I will fast-forward to ... which is positive and supportive and caring), other people’s skills don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston…or ... full week. There seemed to be events going on 24 hours a day! While this ... ’s pretty much the pivotal element to many Orientation events. Believe it or

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to ... upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the ... the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road, on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math Circle (like the ones in Berekeley and Boston) is a gathering of K-12 students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American ... suddenly is incredibly easy to find yourself entirely and completely alone. With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  you don’t feel like dealing with paint fumes or chalk dust is to ... weight of any furniture you’d like to stack on top of it. These ... want to say on the matter, like tips to make a small room look bigger or

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  on the highway, or the service road next to it. Particularly when I ... go back the other way on the highway, or find my way to my destination ... first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had ... delicacy of mud to again show off our proud cultural heritage. The Europeans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  start, which attracted companies and led to better opportunities. Without ... , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... sister, and his brother were all accepted to MIT within nine months of each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  anyways. On Monday, I printed out everything I had to read, which also means ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... hanging on to my train of thought when other people are also injecting their

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  (both of which were submitted to MITMedical). Then I had to fill out the ... about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005