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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  will do this for you anyway. :-) My advising seminar, 1.A24, has proved to be a worthy contender for most intriguing class this term. We meet for an hour and a half every Monday afternoon to nibble on biscuits and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  (literally) in October 2020. I am super excited for this, but the first lecture ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... .303/11.003: Methods of Policy Analysis. I need this class for my humanities

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  ’t for everyone, especially people who want to make money immediately or ... all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  to be done for comedy, or to emphasize the sad; rather, there is an ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] hadestown stage on broadway, jan 2020[/caption] when i saw hadestown in january 2020, it hit me like a train with

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  [/annotation] since coming to MIT. A game is incredibly long – I have only played the ... hours.  Would you like to play Mahjong? The games don’t take quite as long, but we still play for seven hours at once a lot of the time. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  - Shirt - Shoes THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS: - Tremulant - Death Cab For ... - Exercise - Taking Timur's money in Texas Hold 'Em THREE THINGS YOU NEED IN A ... money - Fold laundry correctly - Calculus THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  reaching for a calculator. EXAMPLE #1: consider being in a room with a ... ’s talk). The question: how long does it take for all audience members to ... after 30 or so seconds! The official, calculator-enabled, model for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  creating STEM games for middle schoolers in Nepal, and I'm pretty interested ... around to public schools in the area to have kids play similar games. I ... want to take! I'm even excited for the required classes, which is really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  typically known for having a lot of budget dedicated to it. I chose the game ... : Fuchs, M. (2017). “Ruinensehnsucht”: Longing for decay in computer games ... to nature and a longing for it. Chang, A. Y. (2019). Playing nature

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  touch with my friends, or about getting to do puzzles and play board games ... my summer at home, and that it would be nice to make some money. The ... through summer employment, so I guess I needed to make money somehow. I also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  . It was a big, nervous change for me because I am not only change ... *2*4*4=64 options for the lighting in my room, not including my windows. I think ... happiness. Alarm clocks I have two alarm clocks: a radio alarm clock for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional ... nursery room for other newborns. He saw twenty or thirty other boys and ... Weekend and in the online MIT09 chat were also housed in East Campus, and I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  molding the destinies of Europe and Asia. The very concepts of de ... . Democracy as we have known it for more than two hundred years is the fruit of ... national consciousness of the responsibility for providing education to all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  ’t even muster up the energy to play, so I settled for watching. I stopped ... I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  an Italian place Played video games at home Watched Poor Things ... bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a ... for sensitive information like my social security number. I even

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  we stayed in Caetani Castle for a week. We hauled our luggage up the ... me two days of begging Admir for him to promise to open the doors over ... memory[/caption] For lunch and dinner, we would go down to a little

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  back for, and that, obviously, is the most fun we have all year. Since ... best we could to do honor this tradition was talk for a couple of hours ... configured a music bot within Minecraft and were able to play some bops

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  new experience to sit on the subway for so long. We ate lunch together ... low, especially with my class having our first year online. Sometimes ... excited to try new things. For the first four semesters of MIT, this has led

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  better part of the game just bashing buttons. I still play Smash, though ... was better at math and had played many more card games than I had. I ... realized that. The hate for card games stuck around, though. A friend and I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  Hey all! Time for another round of Q&A. A few general comments: 1 ... Internet for logistical questions before you ask me. 2) When I receive ... go into the "respond later" or "respond much later" pile. 3) For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013