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  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  (1.013) has a four-hour lab 12-4pm on Wednesday, which blocks out a lot ... Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this ... couple weeks, the course has been heavily focused on the financial aspects

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  Today's Mystery Hunt puzzles: the two puzzles in (my) Mystery Hunt ... . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... world again. I had a great day of reading. The applications in today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  rail on a Saturday or a Sunday and do some exploring (you can easily get ... to live within walking distance of MIT, but then I got old and traded ... living in the city, but the woods are really perfect for the two main

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14.21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  chemistry, and helps them explore their cultural identities through reading ... . Thought you knew Riemann sums, spent a few months on Taylor Series, a master ... that "this is MIT" feeling. Genuinely proving every concept he wrote on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon as the first 2017s step on campus. (Thankfully, I'm still an ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... spots on the hockey and lacrosse teams for any other opportunity at MIT ... sports, we practice Monday through Friday, and occasionally on Saturdays

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  open; there is no period where students are not allowed to live on campus ... Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  the puddles with the hopes of getting on the evening news. No such luck ... , so I curled up in Hayden with Moll Flanders. I usually sit up on the ... whole second floor. At night, I put on my totally awesome red rainboots

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  classes are over!!!! i feel so free

  

  Today was the last day of classes for the spring semester—and, as a ... very last class, a seminar-style class on modern drama, I texted[annotation note="a wonderful Next House subcommunity where I live called 4W, or the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  I've got for you today. Back to the living and the learning and all ... my argument, too. There's a video on CollegeHumor of some students

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  entry is to let you know about the live webcast of the competition. It will begin at 6 pm EST on Thursday the 31st (today). Check it out and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  yards. I'd applied to live on-campus knowing this—but deep down, I ... ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comodidad y facultad ¿Te asusta postularte en facultades lejos de casa? Entonces, lee esto.

  

  preguntarme esto después de reunirme con unos consejeros de la escuela secundaria que querían cambiar la percepción de los padres sobre el hecho de que sus hijos abandonen el nido para ir a la facultad. Y es una realidad

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  study habits and academics now that PNR is ending and I'll be on actual ... kick ass. learn LaTeX, HTML/CSS, Java, JavaScript, and Python I know ~some~ Java from APCSA but not very well. I am planning to teach myself La

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  When I was little, I went on what I proudly called “adventures”. I explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran ... started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Caine is a 9 year old boy from East LA. His dad, George, runs a used auto parts store. It doesn't get much foot traffic anymore - what ... abandoned. Caine loves arcades. So last summer, while home on break, he began

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... whateve you want on top, like a sundress or glitter shorts (above). Then you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  to 40 hours on 031 we did. This class CONSUMED our lives last semester ... wrote: On average (based on end of semester surveys), students spend 10.1 hours/week on 6.009, while we spent on average 20. On average (based on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019