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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to ... a lecture hall, we had to report to Walker, where there were rows and ... anything you could do sitting in a lecture hall, which was even more

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... , you have them now and you still look everything up on Google. Recycling bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  gaming the housing lottery. YOU DON'T NEED TO GAME THE GODDAMMED LOTTERY! YOU DON'T ACTUALLY CHOOSE YOUR PERMANENT LIVING GROUP UNTIL ORIENTATION! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very ... day out. there was a puzzle club event around noon, where we solved

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM ... ? Where would they be coming from? What would be their approach to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  't watch Arrested Development, you will not get this), and he looked at me in ... low budget Disney world where you're exploring Austria in the 1800s ... 'll save you the story of my (entirely satisfactory, as always) visit to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  impossible, because no matter what you do, someone else thinks they can do it a ... call you.) so after getting my diploma I got to spend a lot of time ... didn't include any where she was making a rude gesture. =) Then came an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  you can't just stick your eye into a radio telescope; nowadays ... to the end of the post, if you want to get straight to the punchline ... , the total signal gets stronger and stronger as you add up more and more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Neil Armstrong. On the Seal shank you can find the curiosity rover :D ... . Thus on the Boston Skyline, you can see a Delorean making it's appearance ... pendulum for brave prefrosh to take a ride in. You can see the double

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... this floor, you can see our beautiful Olympic-sized pool (ranges from 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  (The Summer Update Edition!) Greetings to all! Can you feel that ... , Latina/o, and Native American communities. I can't promise you the answers ... 106 degrees last week.) As we get closer to September the class of 2010

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  to get a bio phd compared to chemistry and physics phds is that you ... Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry ... . It's good to see all of you :) So what's up. It's senior year. This is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read ... cream and root beer. And most of you know what happened next - the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  ’ll provide an excerpt of that excerpt here, where, in describing his outdoorsy ... that species now because I’m a blogger, so I’ll tell you about what I did ... , since we had Monday off for holiday. We get four-ish breaks this semester

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  bluegrass, those songs are no where to be found on this list (though you ... are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R should not be confused with Rs (can't do subscripts, sorry), which refers

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  to learn how to read and engage younger children in reading. You can ... slew of ideas: As you can see, we had...a lot. We originally started ... did something known as "Crazy 8s" where you have five minutes to draw

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  is an annual event at East Campus every IAP where  people get the ... Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more ... take advantage of every opportunity to get a full MIT experience. So

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  story If you can’t find the courage to change, ask someone for help. I ... get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to get back at it. So among a bunch of other goals, I told [annotation note

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  ? Senior spring is supposed to be the best semester of college, where we get ... can still walk through the hallways of my dorm and get into random wild ... many months. I figure that it might be insightful to those of you faced

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020