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  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  science?" The Registrar's office says that 460 students do not have their ... Science] (or 6.3, not sure yet), and Musical Theater. The question is, is ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... years of this and I'm gonna run the w-OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THINGS ... even read the first chapter of each textbook. Bring it, junior year

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here, was that our memories can be more accessible when we write around the objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... year"]haven’t played the game yet[/annotation], Ultrahand is one of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... playlists. You know, vibes and all that. A year ago we expanded on the idea

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not ... Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (WHO 2019) I've been a bit absent from the blogs lately. It's not from a lack of ideas of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional musical sequence. When my younger brother hit the play button, I was already

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... the night before it was due), Danny had a CMS.100 essay, Allan had a ... I G H T – animation assignments. So the long weekend Saturday, 10

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes, and 53 seconds away. But who’s counting? In the mean time we stayed in ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  I'm sitting on my bed, back against the windowsill and sneakered feet dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise ... gigantic full boxes on the floor. There are sheets on my bed, supporting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I'm going to address: 1) "It seems like the food ... [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I've spent the last 48 hours thoroughly enjoying myself: exploring Boston

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with ... we go! Psets are an abbreviation for"Problem Sets", which is the academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  Massachusetts, the precipitation comes down in shovelfuls. Now if you're like ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a ... alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever, our very own blogger Hamsika :) Being the amazing person she is, Hamsika ... into my CPW experience - boy, was it an experience!! Being the eager

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010