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• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends ... -birthday party in his office. The preparations began last Wednesday night. My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... . But i have decided that now my only aim is to get in MIT so i need your ... taking admission in IIT Bombay this year. I dropped my one year after

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... just go to dinner with my student host from 7-9... or if I even want to ... " Certainly it's possible -- my friend Carl '07 won an Eloranta fellowship a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  other day on CC. I really was paying attention to the game, but my feet hurt and I was tired and my mind was drifting a little. There are a lot ... played D-league basketball my freshman year for my living group. It was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  immediately preceding apple bake--perhaps my finest moment as a human being was ... only one prize in each category instead of two, and my work wasn't so fantastic as to win an entire category. Still, it's gratifying to know that my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  your classes that you have taken? A lot of my Social Studies classes are ... list AP courses where I'm not actually taking an AP course (since my high ... I wrote: Commenting on my last entry, Adriana asked about essay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  what they had to say! Short introductions!  Jonathan: My name is ... PhD student at Stanford. My main interest is extremal combinatorics ... course 18C (Math with Computer Science). As the name of my major suggests

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but ... poetry, and having a place to put my emotions has also been very helpful. I ... , my other [annotation note="i.e. non-Humanities, Arts, and Social

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex ... anywhere else in my blogs, you will see my teaching background come through ... ="aligncenter" width="724"] all diagrams are drawn by yours truly on my mit ipad. i

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

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in ... Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... we left I wanted to get a vid of me snowboarding down so I did like my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  take such a famed class, I decided to give my [annotation note="have I ... material would have solidified my understanding more. For example, they went ... (which duh was my favorite), but because I personally am only interested in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  sorry"]my last blog,[/annotation], this semester was my second semester ... push myself to make more interesting pieces and see my ideas come to life ... one was my first piece of the semester, and I kept things pretty simple

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  post-rock and like how it combines my favorite parts of rock (drum / electric guitar instrumentation) with my favorite parts of ambient music ... navigating tricky situations   iv. my favorite eminem verse is this one

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  part in reducing my initial culture shock. But sometimes I trip, and ... . Back at home, if I wasn’t wearing my school uniform, I was wearing a ... ’s insane. Every time I drink water from the tap, I can still hear my parents

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . The commute to the Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, my UROP ... far with me—bus 62 is my giant UberPOOL. Except, no other public ... Center’s tunnels. Then a nice older veteran said my blue hair was cool and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and ... into my external auditory meatus, hit "play" on your iPod, and yelled WHO ... couldn't tell you off the top of my head how to distinguish between any of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my ... opportune gifts I've gotten was a small plastic aquarium, from one of my best friends, on my sixth birthday. Misha had scrawled his name on the card, but

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  that I didn't do my work at Cambridge, but it meant I could focus on ... other topics with my supervisor, and I've gotten a lot out of doing this ... going to CPW confirmed my suspicions completely. MIT people are amazing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  , (unless they specifically asked I not post about it) and my best answer. If ... the subject line (it helps Google sort my mail). Read through, enjoy ... thing we created. It's quite difficult to visualize my invention only by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  do you make the professors love you? Well, my closest professor friend is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006