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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students ... they not like and what do they absolutely love about it? Wouldn't it be ... it wasn't worth it to listen to them when you could just listen to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  structure. Two course 18 freshmen later my heart sank. I couldn’t possibly ... .05 recitation, am I?” I found out later that we didn’t have recitation that week, which I didn’t realize because I accidentally pre-registered for 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  mega baller and has a car.) When I told her I didn’t know what Friendly ... them character--my camera's been through a lot, you see.) 7. PEOPLE: Don’t ... took the T. The winter didn’t stop me. Frozen sand is quite aesthetically

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  . Oddly enough, I haven't had any deep and meaningful thoughts while ... break. Although I don't want to talk too much about my break (let's be ... definitely feel like you belong at home, but it doesn't feel the same way it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  fluke warm winter weather won't prevent the Outdoors Club (MITOC) from ... the snow. They go through everything you need to know if you haven't ... (Windows didn't like the drivers). That and because it's frackin' huge and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is ... . The ones where you say "yeah Sx wouldn't solve Px, and Sy wouldn't solve Py, but Sx + Sy solves Px, Py, and Pz which wasn't even a design

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  .111 (Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems), so we weren't exactly best buddies. In ... . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to ... , but can't speak coherently for 50 minutes. Professor Silbey was not any

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd, complex language. I was simply exhausted. Just because it's MIT doesn't mean ... . xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  victories isn't something that just applies to MIT, but to life in general ... "homework" isn't like high school homework. I always feel like I'm never ... whatever is bothering me at the moment likely won't be my biggest problem in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don't ... for the entire lecture and he has cookies at office hours. If that doesn't ... planning on doodling through the next 1.5 hours! (Thank goodness he didn't

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... of the past while imagining the future. A neuron! Isn't it cute?  You ... head of the philosophy department. We haven’t had our first class yet, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  pushing forward. You don't want to ever feel like you're falling behind. And really, you can't afford to (with the default fear of not graduating on ... find out they don't like a field or said field is not faring so well

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  they were about the Institvte. That's still true for me, although I wasn't ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... Institvte. It's been a long three days. I don't really care how space

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  that with the fact that I didn't adhere to the end times of my study ... off paintballs at 260 feet per second. Since I don't like making things ... shirt underneath. Dang.Since I haven't outed myself as a paintball

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  I haven't been as buried as my fellow premed Chris S., '11, who ... close range. Even if you can take a guess on who they are, you haven't ... originally: Matt McGann already told you who the actor was. But I didn't see

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn't ... events early so that you don't end up with 7 XXL shirts like I did and so that upperclassmen masquerading as prefrosh don't swipe the free stuff

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  this entry unbiased, I won’t reveal which side I’ve chosen – or rather ... hamentaschen remained unaltered, while the latke… well… it didn’t hold up so well ... derivative of the hamentaschen, you can’t take the derivative of the latke

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this ... /trailers without electricity and running water." In case you don't know, this is a ... ; at night, the temperature here drops to below zero (Fahrenheit!). I don’t

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... : (This is also proof that my handwriting isn’t always neat. These are also ... ! ...But it's totally not. Don't worry, Kate's got it covered (she went, too

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  chili, borscht, sopapillas, enchiladas, rolos, and decided that I don't ... , for the first time, wasn't too embarrassed to be the vocalist. I broke ... that having a broken foot doesn't mean you have to lie in bed all day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010