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  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... let it be known that I really hate multi-part problems. The time is 2 ... #3. Now I remember why I had 8.022 open. I like the way we calculate

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• 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…

  

  (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence Saturday night, and the waitress serving my table, who couldn't have parted

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

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That ... conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little ... -known class around the Institvte. As many of you know, 6.001 was a class

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings that I wrote throughout the semester, typically whenever I missed home. I titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  Management"]IDM[/annotation] and the Infinite, as in, it's in the basement. The final project was pretty much as the name suggests -- no rules other than the fact that your lamp must turn on -- and throughout the course we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a ... undergrad; you can read more about the group on their website. my project is ... without revealing any other information about the object. for example: i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  , partially because it's hot even inside with the AC nominally blasting, and ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest math, science, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... though most of the people in the course were upperclassmen). There was no doubt the IAP trip was a major draw for students, but I am also very much

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  , but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual ... the betrayed party would find out. Here, the affair seemed to be the ... -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  Within the last few weeks, early action applicants received their admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  “pretty damn hard”. However, these conversations always lacked the one thing ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  Ron Padget   Here is my philosophy: Everything changes (the word "everything" has just changed as the word "change" has: it now means "no ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  , celebrities, investors, and visionaries talk about their companies and the future of their industries. Sadly, Disrupt fell on the same weekend as MIT ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the ... month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  Fridays are sneaky. Theoretically, as the last day of the week and the only thing standing between you and two glorious days of freedom and relaxation, Friday is the greatest day of the week. But as the last day of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  will cover a couple different trips over the past few months. And since 90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011