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  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  Athletic Center which marked the end of a very long first semester at MIT. So ... : BU Expedition So at some point in the middle of the semester one of my ... had finals for and at some point I started to feel like a maniac who was

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  .01 Physics or 18.01 Calculus. Getting at least one technical GIR out of the way ... . Go to a website like firehose.guide and look at your choices. Schedule ... . Some recent ones that might help are Life Changing Classes at MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... they have at MIT. Ironically, a friend from Caltech was similarly scared ... varied passions than ever before. I volunteered at a film festival, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  sedentary and cold. My last dragon at MIT was my finals dragon ... dragons you’ve already conquered over the past two decades. At least for me ... definitely does not mean rejection. I’ve met so many people here at MIT who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at ... of January at MIT, and one of the best times to be on campus. IHTFP ... normal class is worth 12 units at MIT, which indicates that the class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  buildings and an hour turns me from a genius into a fool: when I show up at 6 ... was 031).[/annotation]We both lived in EC but didn't know each other at ... people I didn't know at all felt called to text me back. Now, in person, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  at work on that. Nevertheless, and quite understandably, you want to ... interest in the classes I took, at competitive levels; a few constructive ... earlier than their projected "We'll have them at 8 PM tonight" statement

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  almost every week for the past 6 years. Mostly at the Z on campus ... interim. At this point, I had a space, but no equipment: no platform, no ... generic big-box store barbell/plate package at a heinous markup from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  everyone is at their most hosed, most stressed, most sleep-depped - and yet ... semester at MIT: the tiny defeats, the small victories. Finals, again, sooner ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  * * * ME: [walking somewhere at night] GROUP OF FROSH: [whispering] ME ... what things are you gonna check out FROSH: well i was looking at the a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... part 2: yarn art hi-res rendering of the board or if you're ever at MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  banner says "Live at EC." EC is short for East Campus. I do not know if ... , simultaneously, this-broadcast-is-live. I live at EC, on the second floor of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  weeks ago. You all should check it out, and rejoice at the number near the ... -qualified applicants are admitted to at least one top college. Admittedly, the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  , and I hope to see you at CPW or around campus sometime. Please say hi ... ’re playing with your upper limits. A lot of people don’t rejected at all; they

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  failing at life. Rather, I thought that getting in would mean having access ... individual creates his own experience at the Institvte: he takes advantages of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... tallest building in Cambridge, at 20 stories tall). The challenge: how many

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  ’s that. At this point, you can’t change the grades you’ve earned or the ... at home).

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  white striped button down. I waited in line at Cava next to the white ... think what they want when they look at me and spending my energy appeasing ... , that at the end of the day I didn't win one, so I was not as smart as my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  At MIT, we have pre-registration as well as regular registration ... years of MIT before I actually decided to look at the entire course ... afternoon looking at this catalog now, thinking about what could have been. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this ... to the US in September to begin my studies at MIT, my world ... astronaut all the time. I also had to squeal in delight at things I’d never

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014