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An open letter to classes that have psets and exams in the same week | The Tech
I hear you, really, I do. Psets are a great way to learn material and exams are a good way to test understanding, and it can be hard to pack all that learning and understanding into a single semester. Your reasons for this behavior — having psets and exams in the same week — make sense. But I wish you’d consider my wellbeing along with these optimizations. When we first met at the beginning of the semester, the syllabus really should have raised some red flags.
9 lies MIT students tell themselves at the beginning of the semester | The Tech
The first week of classes is coming to an end. You’ve got a lot on your plate, what with adjusting to your new schedule, planning for your future (or continuing to deny its existence), and getting down to business with freshly-assigned psets. Whether you’ll get used to it or not, you’re probably waking up earlier than usual and hyping yourself up with some Positive Thoughts About The Semester.
Engineers end January on sturdy note | The Tech
Men’s Squash (No. 22) started the weekend with a win over No. 21 Middlebury College on Friday, but sustained loses to No. 16 Virginia and No. 19 Williams on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Women’s Fencing (11–7, 9–3 NFC) defeated four out of six opponent teams Sunday at the Northeast Fencing Conference #2. The Engineers had a strong showing in epee with a record of 41–13 this competition.
Do’s and don‘ts of Reg Day | The Tech
Registration Day (Reg Day) is approaching, and choosing classes for the next term has always been one of my favorite activities. As an undergrad, I was an avid user of tools like planner, firehose, and courseroad. Planning the perfect schedule™ is a skill I still haven’t perfected, but here are some do’s and don’ts I’ve compiled over the years that might help you on your way to schedule mastery. Do yourself a favor and double check your degree requirements.
‘Excuse me sir ... I mean ma’am ... uh ... I mean ... sir?’ | The Tech
Thinking about and talking about gender can be really difficult. It can be hard to find the right words for complex and abstract feelings — I don’t even know how to express all my thoughts about gender. I think if conversations about gender identity and non-binary-ness were prevalent when I was younger, I would’ve immediately gravitated towards adopting a non-binary label. Maybe it’s the MIT bubble, or maybe the world’s becoming a more open place. I’m not sure.
What do podcasts and journaling have in common? | The Tech
I want to be the kind of person who listens to podcasts, but I like music too much. I can’t study or do other tasks that require my full attention while listening to music. This means that the only quality time I get with my tunes is while I’m commuting or running errands. Don’t get me wrong — I love journalism. I read a lot of news, and when I listen to podcasts, I enjoy them. But for some reason, my love for NPR and FiveThirtyEight doesn’t tear me away from my folk and indie alternative playlists.
IAP Horoscopes | The Tech
If you haven’t completed your swim test yet, this IAP is the month to do it. The alignment of Jupiter and Earth’s Moon increase your buoyancy by approximately 12 percent. Be extra careful to stay on top of your to-do list; a few much-dreaded tasks may go undone if you don’t exercise a great deal of self-control. Since the first snowfall and the freezing of the Charles River, love has never been so ripe for the harvest.
18 things to do this IAP | The Tech
Welcome back to campus! Figuring out what to do with yourself at MIT can be hard when you don’t have a schedule, set by classes and UROPs, to regulate your life. Here are some suggestions on how to spend your time this IAP. 1. Reconnect with old friends you lost touch with over break and the end-of-fall-term crunch. Make plans to catch up, perhaps over lunch at Clover or coffee at Flour. 2. Clean your room.
Second novel by Andy Weir, author of ‘The Martian’, falls short of expectations | The Tech
Jazz Bashara is a smuggler on humanity’s Moon colony, Artemis. Technically, she’s a delivery girl, or porter, by day and a smuggler by night as she tries to amass enough money to buy an EVA suit. This suit will allow her to climb up the Artemis social ladder and mix some excitement into her life; as an EVA tour guide, she can leave the confines of the bubbled-in city and take tourists out exploring the Moon’s terrain.
My morning commute as an algorithm | The Tech
I am a creature of routines, and being a Course 6 student has inspired me to algorithmitize (yes, that’s a made up word) my life when possible. For example, I do laundry every Saturday, sometimes earlier when my hamper is 75% full, or my favorite hoodie is in need of a wash. When I moved off campus, I was suddenly faced with a new daily decision: how to get to campus every day. Making an algorithm was the logical next step. Here’s my thought process: Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way.
A guide for course evaluations | The Tech
You’ve probably gotten a deluge of emails asking you to fill out course evaluations. You’ve got a lot on your plate right now with finals and such, so here are a few questions to ponder so you can optimize your subject evaluations. You’ve gotta make sure instructors and departments hear your feedback. Were there enough TAs and LAs for the course? Were the lines at office hours too long? Did psets take forever to be graded and returned?
Papers disappear, Tech Exec responds | The Tech
It is hard to say when a week ends and begins for The Tech. The paper is printed and distributed to campus on Thursdays. Our departments have their all-hands-on-deck organizational meetings for each edition on Sundays. Our staff stays up late on Tuesdays, laying out advertisements, arts articles, campus life pieces, opinion submissions, and sports write-ups.
How to adjust to winter break | The Tech
This will be my sixth winter break at MIT, and I think it is high time I write down some useful tips for how to manage the adjustment from “hell week and finals week at MIT” to the so-stressless-it-is-actually-stressful time period: winter break. If you’re a workaholic like me, it can be hard to make this adjustment. You go from five classes, a campus job or two, research, and 20-hour weeks at The Tech to a glorious but disturbing nothing.
BOOK REVIEW: A tale of hazing and hacking at MIT
For those unfamiliar with MIT, reading Geeks & Greeks will likely be an eye-opening experience, as the graphic novel quickly dispels many MIT stereotypes. In the first few chapters, we see that Greek life exists at MIT, and that students aren’t a bunch of overly serious nerds — they like to joke around, prank each other, and put large objects on top of buildings.
Course 6 to offer CS Minor
“We expect the minor will better serve the needs of MIT students broadly. It will allow students to major in other disciplines and get computational depth. We don’t expect a large change in the number of EECS majors. We could see a drop in the number of double majors,” Professor Anantha Chandrakasan, EECS Department Head, said in an email to The Tech.
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