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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  2nd semester, assuming there wasn't pass/no record)? and what was your ... (everyone's got to do them but at the same time, you're all thinking "pass/no record, God bless pass/no record..."), and there's nothing quite like it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  that I'd survived a year with a 4.0(/5.0) GPA -- thank God for pass/no ... no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... frat where you know no one. Yeah, don't let anybody tell you what "social

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  any good if you have no information outside the course listing ... clean the bathrooms? No, the rooms in MacGregor aren't that big -- they ... freshman? No, you don't have to find suitemates in MacGregor. All of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... ) looked uncool. Bleh. I tried to clean it off to absolutely no avail. I ... perfectly honest, there's no way I could explain it to you. Sorry. =) There

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... they are relatively uncommon. There's no set policy for all of MIT. On ... going at once. So no, strictly speaking, it's not "fair", but it balances

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here ... . Okay, here are a bunch of responses to my blog comments... No ... students happy is no consolation to seeing the deferred students so unhappy

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  , whether it’s in the tunnels, the Banana Lounge, or online. Their

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  east campus up next. but even if that was true, no one had any clue when ... much quieter announcement. there was no email from housing or student ... details. on the renovations itself: ec needs to be renovated. it's no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been ... roommates again, no longer feeling the need to self isolate or distance myself ... granted us the ability to put one class on Pass / No Record to offset the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  work, i avoided it. and yeah, sure, i said it myself, there's no such ... only one that i wouldn't choose over my current situation. so no, my ... meaning. no ultimate purpose like changing the world or giving back to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  rooms. And there was no one else on the floor, but I'd hear the voices of ... night and check my email, scroll through my Twitter feed, whatever. No ... no one else on the floor but I heard people's voices, you know, like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  please remember that no one ever has to go through MIT alone. It's just not ... through it. Yes, MIT is rigorous, but there's no one actively out there ... have no idea what's going on in lecture, can you help?" and they will

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to ... . Collaborate on homework. MIT has one very important philosophy: no competition ... best to make sure there is no comfort zone–which, even with all this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  impossible for me to say no to Ultimate Frisbee, so I bundled up and joined ... , encouragingly, "like a girl sticks out her boobs!" .......... I...what? No ... the lecture hall 10 minutes early, and there was still no one there - so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  it took just as long as anything else takes because there's no way to ... with these blogs. No cliches, no sappy messages, no speeches. Read any ... publish what people think I should publish. No, when I got hired to be an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  too much to my lab. To take things a step further, however, there's no ... leave this strange place where the street addresses make no sense. But as ... backgrounds, but the Italian put it all in perspective for me: "No, no, no. When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  no shortage of work on the team. An excerpt from the proposal: The ... more I have found, in research nowadays, there are no quick and ... I had no clue what I was doing but somehow I found myself working on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  with? That is, a current MIT student?" No problem! Let us know at cpw ... wonder why." No big conspiracy here, Erek, it's just that blogs ... the waitlist this year. The last two years, where we took no students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  sentence just feels… braggy. Unhelpful. Unnecessary. Unnecessary? Yes. No ... Mr. Italics. … But no, I wouldn’t say that was “unnecessary.” In fact ... needed that affirmation to make it through MIT. So no, I guess I wouldn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  got this. No matter what happens, I’m so proud of you already for ... continue walking, as the sinking feeling in your gut intensifies. No, this ... pounding in your ears. No luck. The [annotation note="The Infinite runs from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021