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  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  , I sure don't have a lot of it or do it a lot aside from these informal ... imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love ... programming exercises and larger group programming projects. This is a class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  rope above the ball into a knot. It took the cashier three tries to do it ... supposed to be a model/actress--not that you can't do that and go to MIT ... detail like I usually do in my blog entries; rather, I'll just discuss the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  question begins. Do you believe that a generalized major which you shape ... sort of community service, do you think id have a chance at getting a ... 's blog. Stuyvesant asked further, "what sort of a GPA do you need to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... over the years, including the most recent one. The first was a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... first song i learned on a dance team at MIT. every time i hear this, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  Some Reflections It's been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I ... roughly fifteenth grade. A lot has changed, but some things remain the same ... longer an angsty teen. It's been a long year. I changed majors, I started

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  here is a picture of us and our grandma doing our massive amount of ... were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  I cared more than I do today. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad ... word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT ... yourself that you’re living out a rare and coveted opportunity, and generally

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  the West Campus dorms. Suffice it to say, we do pretty awesome stuff: Come for a great night of international dinner, featuring cuisine from ... , Tiantian '13 can make a Beijing Roast Duck from scratch (SERIOUSLY! can you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... accurately answer Fatema’s question – 6 directions (one for each face of a cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  .'" "You would probably do a lot of exploring with other sensory systems ... of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a result, some students compiled a list of of his weirdest, strangest, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  time I danced down the street under the Big Dipper constellation. A dozen fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  't have a diploma for you. do you even go here?" Or maybe in a little over ... council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and ... . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... no control over it. See, some guys just can't grow a beard. The best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  've actually been doing a lot of really great work (renovating our office ... included a DJ, hors d'œuvres, and an open bar! (Despite now being 21, I was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... , I had only regretted not spending more time doing work. That is, until I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  try things you shouldn’t do and then realize that you made a mistake ... they say they want to study? a small minority of them probably do, but i ... . he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT student” (if such a thing even exists!) – for starters, check out the shirt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch ... ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008