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  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  spend an abysmal amount of time on Courseroad trying to make it work ... ]before realizing that I didn't like nanomaterials or physics enough to commit to ... difficult to schedule[annotation note="lots of classes have pre-reqs and some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  -MIT exchange is a great reason to go to MIT, whether or not you plan on studying ... is placed on long-term retention of learning, has been a good ... 't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  walk to Star Market to get a pint of ice cream and end up with two pints ... -seasoned piece of avocado toast with one. 9:32 AM I start work. My UROP is data ... purest form, on top. #helth 1:03 PM My dorm, Burton-Conner, is making a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  seven places to P-Set: 1. Quincy Market, Upstairs by the GAP This is ... the noise of the ground below. There is normally not much going on up ... all of these locations is to P-Set, they are all connected to food in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  of which is to say Jones is dumbing down MIT. Interesting but ... "early action" round of admissions, partly on grounds it contributes to ... to which they don't enjoy their senior year, which is supposed to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  not to stand on the edge of the well or get too far deep into the water ... activities, and soon learned that Tetazoo time, which is 15 minutes to an hour ... ! Terracina was the first of the archeological sites we went to. On the hike up

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being ... electronics is still the limiting factor on our data acquisition. Speaking of ... working on 8.09 around 9, which is when my mom called and we talked for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  whiteboard. Her back is to the panel and we can see an angled side portrait of ... tuft of black combed over to one side, is thinning. He looks determined ... electrons. Drawn on top of this depiction is the prototypical atom model, with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , blue to yellow, etc*. This seemed to depend on the shade of the original ... logarithmic (log) scale, which is a fancy way of saying that "twice the amount ... memory to brights is spending bits on information that your eyes won't use

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  tons of paths to success. People often go to community college or a ... they are. You can say this or that school is better in this or that department or this or that way, but you can never say this person is better or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  the area, and then having a better experience, which is great. but some ... , is just not fair. i started taking bupropion, a common brand of which ... through two or three or four of them before finally settling on one that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to ... = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... through. The good news is that I'm starting to understand more and more as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a public ramp on the busiest Charles River boating day of the year... your

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  free, or confirm that someone is likely to be around at a certain time ... tick mark is 25 cents, and at the end of the year, we're going to have an ... space on the whiteboard is usually reserved for a rotating poll, which

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  average tenure of a senator is 18 years or something, on average. So you get ... [source: IsNateSilverAWitch.com] All of this is a very long-winded way to ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  mentality of "This is the dorm that, based on what I know now, I want to live ... answered: "Drew, it is important for you to know which dorm do you want to ... since now which dorm do you want to be in, it's better and easier for you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... the forge, cropped ones for social events that don't include bits of flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the ... . According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... (on the MIT 5.0 scale) and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the ... because of my fractured and sprained foot, which is such a bummer because I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023