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• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... ; Development class. I ended up falling asleep instead. 5.12 (Organic Chemistry ... , giving me about 5 minutes to grab dinner before the hall closed. I ended up

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  , etc. are allowed to be scheduled from 5-7 PM. That way all teams can ... at 5 and starting at 7. Still, I can’t complain. I know how lucky we ... ’t “athletics”. That’s fine. Just know that every day here at 5 pm, the labs and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  great. * By chance, one of the Protofrosh visited during a special 5 ... . 5.112, for example, has a monthly Pizza Forum for ten randomly ... , with free flu shots for members of the MIT Community. 5,154 shots were

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  ...later! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/10/2013: The burgers were fairly tasty. On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 would be a high school cafeteria burger and 5 would be an In-N-Out double-double, Tasty Burger would fall in the 4 to 4.5 range. In any case

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  % 31-33 2,347 178 8% 28-30 1,037 47 5% 25-27 456 2 0% < 25 305 0 ... -30 989 57 6% 25-27 571 26 5% < 25 177 1 0% Distribution of ACT ... -9 4,023 342 9% 6-7 1,079 57 5% < 6 49 0 0% Class of 2017

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am ... probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but ... course 5 friends will be so proud!) But I decided to keep it cool because I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm also taking... 5.13: Organic Chemistry II Our first unit is on “amines”, a class of organic compounds that contain nitrogen. The pre-5.13 reaction: who cares? How do you even pronounce “amines”, anyway?” The post-5

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  at 5pm and goes for an hour or two until 7pm at the latest. For both my ... most cases) are scheduled into the 5p-7p time slot. Most, if not all MIT ... ), realize that these classes do not always avoid the 5p-7p time block. There

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  maybe 4 to 5 equivalents of this amount of stuff: My stuff, looking a ... was turning in a p-set for 5.111...or 5.12, I can't remember at this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am ... the latest. Nope. 1 became 2, and 2 became 5. Why? Because MIT people ... at 5 am, the following thought dominated my mind: "I'm so lucky to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  covered just 5 lectures worth of material, and it was worth 15% of the final ... expected. Yesterday I had a 5.112 (Chemistry) exam, and it was the first ... stressful. Of the 700 total points in 5.112, this test made up 100 of them

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  and some visits to TA's office hours. 5.112 (Principles of Chem) problem ... eyes! I actually think 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) - and not 21W.755 ... a 5.12 poetry competition, from which one of my favorite excerpts is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  teams: #5 Debate (American Parliamentary Debate Association) #6 Women's Swimming & Diving (NCAA Division III) #5 Solar Car (2009 World Solar Challenge) #5 Men's Swimming & Diving (NCAA Division III) #8 Men's Basketball

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  through 5 represent MIT's original five majors: Course 1: Civil & ... (founded as Building and Architecture) Course 5: Chemistry (founded as ... Science and Engineering Course 4 - Architecture Course 5 - Chemistry Course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Wednesday, because all I did was calculus; I guess that p-set happened ….at 5:00 AM the next day. THURSDAY A pset completed @ 5:00 AM leads to waking ... film that lasted 2.5 hours - and I had a physics quiz the next day. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap ... happen. 21 people showed up (honestly, more than the 5 I was expecting, but ... say that I'm taking 60 units, which is 5 12 unit classes. 60 units is

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  : Exam 1: 52.5%. I may have choked. Turn on the slow-motion cameras, and ... . Pause. Repeat: I got a 52.5 out of 60, not 100. Which, most likely, was an ... overheard the password. Reason: Couches. I once sat down at 5:30 pm to start

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  someone's used copy of the 5.111 (basic freshman chem) textbook. I could not ... everything. Except like, some nuclear problem. Oh wait, that was Problem 5. Okay, the essay is done, Problem 5 is actually super easy despite being

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there ... state championships my senior year (out of a total of 5 teams. But still ... integrals) in 5 hours. I started writing this at around 4:30am, feeling less

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  staying on The 5th floor of The West parallel. And, I was at The MIT. It ... actual 5th Westers to play Capture the Flag. Becca and Megan went back to ... only happens at CPW. I submitted this to the 5th Westers that had gotten

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008