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  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  's ultimately better for society that they put a picture with me in it on the ... with an unbelievably fast time. However, they instead chose to use this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  with the circumstances you are in and create for yourself. My social ... *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We ... their neighborhoods and surroundings for data analysts all over the world

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along with about 40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at Cambridge ... from September to May with a summer break, the Cambridge school year

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1 ... pages of very colorful notes and 9 boards filled with pretty picture of ... begins with a vascular injury (a cut) that initiates an extrinsic pathway

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  mean for you? Well, you'll have an MIT email address, MIT web space ... task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting ... that you cannot change your username. So if you're planning to go with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  Smark made it. With about five minutes left, I started losing hope for him ... Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6.004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  looking for any shows to procrastinate with, I would highly recommend any of ... multiply. With due time, I managed to bully myself into writing, and one of ... aspects of the fall semester for the most part.  Going into the fall

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start ... exams as well. Check out The First Year At MIT for details. There are ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... Chef, I’m dusting off the cookbooks and asking mom for advice. I was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  place with the resources to help you change the world -- hopefully for the ... along with Albert Chang, Colin Taylor and Joanne Shih. "I know they're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... week, except for weeks when there's an exam, so there's around ten in all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... ="They graduated last semester :("]no longer with us[/annotation]), let me tell you ... out the blob of glass with a tool called a “block” and blow a small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  I do okay - I've been really nervous! But I am taking it with my good ... than 3.022, I am working on my management minor with 15.812 and 15 ... the semester.  My accounting professor even has lunches with his

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Jo-Jo Update

  

  At Saturday's Miss Massachusetts finals (see previous post), Joanne Chang '03 advanced to the Semi-Final round but, sadly, did not win. (The winner was the former captain of the New England Patriots Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had ... river accompanied our walk. For an hour, time slowed, and we were rulers ... steps away. I felt a surge of excitement then. It remained with me weeks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  years back, for example. When I was practicing with an instructor, did she ... 12 Units. “Subject uses K-12 classroom experiences, along with student ... education, with some mind-blowing observations sprinkled in. Because education

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  years, we, as MIT staff, have come to know and work with so many of them ... during Convocation four years ago. Tomorrow they will gather together for ... MIT education confers. An excerpt: i don't sleep with my grad rat on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  . The air is heavy with humidity and heads and hearts, this week, are heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... incoming presidents-Kate and Yuge-with a crazy idea: what if we ordered a 34,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016