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• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  recitations, 30 hours spent doing homework, and 10 hours spent on ... "] this was pretty close to my breaking point; 0/10 would not do again ... surprising: this semester has certainly been [annotation note="around 50.5 hrs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  passed 2 out of 5 attempted classes, and honestly it should have been 1. So ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... 10-ish hours of debugging, I got my pipelined processor to work. I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  ://ben.mitblogs.com/archives/2005/10/many_ways_to_de.html P.S. The answer is, as many (or as few) as ... -curricular activities till class 10... leadership qualities, art(glass painting, shading ... humiliation." You can call us at 617-253-4791 between 9am-5pm Eastern time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  project lasted only for a month or so, but it was a 9 to 5, monday to friday ... . Jeff wrote, "I have taken the AMC 12 exam in 10th grade, but I do not ... currently have 10 students who are citizens of the People's Republic of China

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  Friday Problem Solving. Principles of Chemical Science (5.111) → Rank D ... time in a while. Japanese 5 (21G.505) → Rank A Unlike Japanese 4, which ... of units: 425 units  Different majors I’ve taken classes in: 10

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  nodes can't be taken. Suppose that, instead of 12, we had 5 queries. Then ... 10 PM on a Saturday night, so I was surprised by how many people I saw ... Hill 3, 4, and 5. The distance a buggy travels beyond the chute and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  the NEID gala.[/caption] 5. I went skiing just 15 miles outside of ... in which members form teams of 3-5 people and build a cool tool or ... Gardner Museum.[/caption] 10. I kayaked in the Charles River. After living

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  and saves them 5. Last song you listened to Fatima> ah, this is more ... > “define troubadour” – This was while I was watching Gilmore Girls 10. Last ... it was to them what to do while i just stared at them for 5 seconds

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... for 5 hours, whether that be on Zoom or in person, being thrown around ... 'm supposed to be. Every day, I fiddle with the idea of doing 5 years at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  ended up being airborne for the longest period of time for the 3-5pm lab ... pessimistic ponderings, that meant something. A year ago, running a 10K (6 ... wheezing and coughing up my lungs after a measly 1.5 mile tennis preseason

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  9pm-10:30pm.  We want to see you and talk to you! I'll even show you ... ! Thursday, 5:47pm - LN2 Ice Cream and Giga Pudding! Random Hall has LN2 events ... event, there will be more LN2 ice cream at East Campus Friday at 5pm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  infection. Dad: This is not the phone call any parent ever wants to get at 10 ... $3230 was covered by the insurance plan and $5,002 was our share. Ouch. At ... , such as surgery, or if it is outside business hours (~8-5, Mon

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  's very similar question in my Q&A #5, about 1/3 of the way down the page ... collegeboard website says 3-5 weeks, I'm guessing this is just for the letter ... 10 day prep and these tests are totally of new shape of what I had been

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  . it normally takes me ~8-10 minutes to walk to [annotation note ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... 've left around 10 and gotten to class in time!! what about the infamous 15

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  one student $10 and names him "the dictator." That student can give as much or as little of the $10 to the other student, whom he does not see ... of giving up to $10 *or* stealing up to $10 from the other student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  . Main campus moves on the hips of building 10, the seat of the great dome with the admissions reception center nestled under it in 10-100. While ... building 10, even buildings are east of it (I guess you could make a mnemonic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the Admissions Reception Center). This means that the room is in building 10, on ... . Generally speaking, numbers are odd on the west side of building 10 and even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5lHYJJQfw&t=17s

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022