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  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  I'm ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh** Well, I kinda wish I'd been ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh**, but I wasn't. Instead, I ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  length about them today. Confession: I am actually talking about the ... "biology" because the ancient Greeks used the root "bio" to refer to living ... .07), we spent a lot of time on tests like ANOVAs, t-tests, and F-tests. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  not-lecture-related news, I moved into Senior Haus (much more on this in ... Lander can predict the future.  Or at least what will be on the front page of tomorrow's New York Times.  That's because he makes the news. [edit

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  tasks I didn't make any progress on. This has two bonuses: it helps me use ... the oft-quoted line of Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current ... ): This class is notoriously difficult, having previously been described on

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

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  dorms because unless you've lived there, you can't describe it. Sure, I ... on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first-year students. Housing differs across campus and we want each student to live ... halls are available on the Housing site.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... . Suddenly you're on your own. A million activities are thrown your way, a ... people in classes based on their level of preparation for each course. For

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  go out and explore the city and beyond. Some places we have visited on ... one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... for the dorm, I'm on call in case of emergency, and I get free housing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in ... computer game on the 3rd week of class was quite empowering! 17.803 POLITICAL

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , the one in the bear(?) hat on the right, lives in Brookline and invited ... I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... the Sox had a home game based on if lights were on in Fenway. Even then

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  the fall, I plan to use Notion to help me keep on track for my health ... assignments on a calendar? I'd have to copy them all into a calendar, then ... have language-specific syntax highlighting!) and LaTeX support. For

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... , 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants. And that was just on ... slept sitting on a chair by a coffee table. It was so uncomfortable and I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go ... insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for ... Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of ... useful to you.) I just have some mishmash to write about today, so ... rejoice about an incident that happened yesterday. So I had a test today in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  small town in Kansas, living on a farm with a humble beginning. He had a ... crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  !  Presently, I’m sitting here on Saturday night (well I guess it’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... computer managing the news department of The Tech like I normally do as well

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  designed to help the next generation of engineers (like me!) build leadership ... school as part of a club you were in? Or one of those hands-on engineering ... put together, on steroids, enhanced with access to a network of former

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Hsin, a restaurant on Mass. Ave which has some cheap eats and really good ... up on this week's episode of Beauty and the Geek. SATURDAY Saturday ... was right. In other news, one of my favorite flavors from Coldstone

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  me! (true story, as I try to help froshies with their psets) i don ... gene in C. elegans (which I have been doing since last year, on ... a Revolution, which had been cited in some news articles as an example

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  living group, going on road trips, having spontaneous parties, watching TV ... to Africa to help vision-impaired children... worked on the Human ... I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007