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• 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 / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  , totally up to you. There is no admissions advantage to applying in one ... tests?" This won't hurt you, no worries ... recommendation from a sophomore year teacher?" There is no requirement that the rec

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  before the May 1st deadline." No worries - we will mail in mid-march, a ... of cuts or is it a one time yes or no decision?" After your application ... admitted student's folder. There are no simple one-time "yes or no" decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  . And that’s no shade to him at all! He told me that I say I’m going to do ... realized that he’s right. I have no trouble coming up with cool ideas but my ... drumming, like there is no buffer between idea and actualization, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  naturally will enforce this delusion that December has no important pop ... Wicked Soundtrack: 1. No One Mourns the Wicked 2. The Wizard and I 3 ... time, and met no one I really clicked with. Boston was still peak though

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  Hi! Hello! Long time no see. It's weird to be typing again. I feel ... earbuds with nothing playing so no one bothers me but so I can be alert at ... be met with literally no one. Like absolutely no one. I think I'm too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• 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 / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  the low-rise (F entry), so there is no elevator. For info, Macgregor has ... enjoying it. That was until I was no longer able to eat Macgregor food for a ... moving was buying a giant bear. Why, you may ask? For absolutely no reason

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 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 / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  . You’ll have a place in no time. Anxiety: Okay, but what about that ... time on it? No! They’re asking us to do all of these things and we don ... ’re also doing sooooooo many HASS things this summer and, like, no STEM

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 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 / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  just as good as if it just hit 28 the spin before. The ball has no idea ... that everyone has an 8.2% chance of getting in? No! The 8.2% is the ... by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• 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 / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  first semester at MIT was pass or no record, I was in real danger of ... classes, but no homework. This allowed me to study during the evenings after ... step in 40% of the problems, and had no clue about another 30% of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• 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