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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  MIT is absinthe used to demonstrate the real-life relevance of binary ... continued to establish myself as a black hole of fame, from which limelight ... “Today, I want to show you guys what I've been working on lately,” to which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... /convenience store on the first floor of the Student Center. It tends to be quite ... when you just need to pick up a carton of milk or orange juice and don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... the same term or something. I'm not on speed. This semester is the only ... not graduated or not graduated on time as a result of failing classes

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  seems we can only focus on one at a time. *** "So, which has better academics, MIT or Cambridge?" To me, the question is meaningless. My second ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  to stage a coup of the vampire empire, which may actually be evil and ... expedition into the woods to Ben's dad's house, which has lots of cool toys ... or something, he has to tame a wild stallion, which he does just by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  tales of back to back exams or days filled with essays, psets, and lab ... friends, is why this post is sadly devoid of any visual aids. But never fear ... wondering, "what is a Hell Week anyway?" Excellent question. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  worth it to be in the presence of so many bright and thoughtful people on ... people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  ."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a ... , or which order you chose to draw them in! So without even drawing the ... lines: It takes a bit of looking back and forth to see why this is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  much of MIT is about openness, whether it's the open source movement or ... okay?" Yes!  One of the best things about MIT is that you don't have to ... week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  involve me touching one of them or having to take my clothes off." Yech ... because we took a field trip to Akami, which basically is this technology ... theories to be correct. I guess this is more on me than JKR, though... 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  it to the office on that day?" May 1 was the postmark deadline, which ... , would it be possible for you to tell us what the status is of Transfer ... , or, is it because less students applying take the ACT? I hate having to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball ... . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  date’s uncle that I was from China instead of Portland, or was it due to ... better world. I want them to be proud of their heritage, and I never want ... ’m from Oregon,” I said, which was my usual response to this question. “No

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  Hear, Or Do Our Observables Fail to Commute?” an anonymous commenter on ... crust to pillow your molars on the soft spongy tissues of dough inside was ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  syndrome, but oh well. No amount of achievement is going to soothe that as ... , but I turned it into a source of motivation to make tenth grade better ... should’ve been kinder and gentler to myself instead of intimidating myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... with their bags up to 500 miles on a single tank of premium unleaded ... field. The Bhutan book is a byproduct of four such trips from 1988 to 2002

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  definintion of "twinkie" is, or whether it would be possible to build a giant ... one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into ... viewers. On top of that, you're designing for actors, which means you need

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  too vague, or totally misdirected - it's impossible to identify exactly ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  system.” She also emphasized that we need to find better measures of ... does this apply to MIT? The end of the talk focused on “translating ... ’s talk, which had plenty of seats to go around.) The MIT news page

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008