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  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  hanging on anymore. I also realized that it was REALLY COLD. Like, -5°C cold ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... 18[/caption] If I could write a book on Freshman Fall, it would

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23:59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in ... the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  FlipCam, skipped my Monday afternoon class, and biked on over to the ... 00b. So, sorry Mark. Can't help you out, but Rachel can! There are ... we rely on technology despite its gaping holes. I don't mean to take

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which ... will take place on main campus. There’s east campus on the east, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  means "almond bread" in German. I got to see Mandelbrot speak on Thursday ... 's about all I remember. Battle on, Mandelbrot. My friend and labmate Steph '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  about the Christian groups on campus and churches in the area. I knew next ... committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do ... . We do our weekly meeting on Tuesdays (called Cruesdays) in the student

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  friends on hall. The next day I had dinner with some friends in the area ... think of not on its own, but in contrast. If you're in your room, that ... sit on your hand for a few minutes and then pull your hand out, you get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  that would help me do well on this final. I spent two years not thinking ... .[/annotation] Then, you see the O on your transcript, thinking nothing of it, until you ... was spending a lot of my time more focused on the state of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  reflecting on these changes. How did I change, and what changed me? How and why ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  equilibria: even though something, on the microscopic level, may be in constant ... experiences you'll end up missing out on - will taunt you until you turn around ... to wear yourself out. After that post, I've gone on to disregard each

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  So quite recently I made a post on Facebook about a few things I had ... a little bit deeper on what I meant by a few of these things, and what ... people this is wild, especially for someone like me who has always lived in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  classes: Math: [annotation note="Calculus 1 (5 on AP Calc AB/BC equivalent ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when the sun has not yet heated the ... stops later, I get out facing Harvard Hall. There, on the second floor, I have PHIL 179, Race and Social Justice. I traverse the Yard on Mondays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  promise. It means. That if I need help, I go on Piazza (Q&A class forum ... . INCAPABLE. DEPENDENT. Got a low score on a test that I knew I could’ve done better on? LOSS OF POTENTIAL. DISAPPOINTMENT. BAGGAGE. For the past three

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons ... alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... you will do in college is do too much. Try it. On the 1st week, you only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  I've been working on my grad school apps lately, when I'm not busy with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  applicant, decisions day is either here or has passed, depending on when you ... , not something an college bestows upon you. Last year on Pi day, I wrote ... students telling me how I had encouraged them to continue striving on past

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  isn't so cold that I could slip up on hidden snow or ice. Commuting via ... other form of transportation. The route to MIT from where I live in the ... or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can ... limits of my mathematical patience. On several quizzes and exams, I ... break. Luckily (?) for me, my floormates on Burton 1 have lots of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009