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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  It's official: my first semester at MIT is over. After finishing four ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  them here. But first off, a general note about the MIT interview: MIT ... dimension to your application and also chat with an ex-MIT student about his ... finally meet up with your EC, don't regard him or her as a foe. The MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  more about biology @ undergraduate level (esp. @ MIT)? It's very true ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... biology. MIT's biology department, in contrast, is largely a biochemistry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  the Mario hack was cool too! Go MIT!! Yikes. Like so many of the ... 's not like MIT can condone the behavior. That said, lots of "official ... hacks? I've heard about the MIT balloon popping up at half-time during the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  Earlier this week, I finished my last exam as an MIT undergrad. It ... the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT’s ... is just my MIT-induced masochism/Stockholm syndrome speaking, but I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  " I bought at the MIT bookstore. This "toy" was Livescribe's Pulse Pen ... person from MIT helping out as well, so I recommended Chris, since Chris ... scheduled for July 24th at 10 in the morning. You're all applying to MIT, you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  two ✅ I’ve done two UROPs so far at MIT. Both of these were during my ... was when I peaked during my MIT career. A grade that high on an exam was ... Use your MIT ID to go to the MFA for free ✅ During the summer of my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of ... of a similar plan being implemented at MIT. Life has often felt surreal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  abbreviated “MIT” has more or less eclipsed its expanded form. With 3 characters ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... first week+ here at MIT, so if there’s any acronyms I can explain to you

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Semantle, [annotation note='david turner has his own fun mit association: he ... is [email]@ihtfp.net. Wait, what? IHTFP? IHTFP is MIT lingo to ... next, I Hate This Fucking Place. IHTFP is a core part of the MIT Identity

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... to MIT students generally and first-years like me. Since starting this ... MIT, I never used Canvas, and I’m not regretting it at all. The

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

   I survived my first semester at MIT, and it was hella dope. I can ... because I’m a human who wants to graduate from MIT. I would do these again ... habit I’ve developed all semester.  Going to MIT Medical I have MIT’s

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  I had started off with the goal of piecing together my life at MIT ... MIT. I knew early on that I wanted to be able to expand this platform ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  applicants understand what MIT is like from their perspective. However, while ... students better understand MIT, our admissions process, and, perhaps most ... have never thought they might be able to attend MIT see it as a place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  “dorm culture” was a thing. I wasn’t (and still am not) in any MIT 2020 ... students living in Senior House in their first term at MIT graduated within ... no means the views of everyone at MIT or even myself for that matter

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... STEM.” Thus, I was lost. But whether for better or worse, MIT didn’t have ... favorite, Junot Díaz, who is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this year in affiliation with MIT’s Course 8 (Physics) department! Though ... with my life during the last two weeks--working and sleeping at MIT ... in Stata A brief tangent--I have always loved to explore. MIT is great

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  of my life at. I hadn’t committed yet and was still torn between MIT ... interest pre-frosh in the extracurricular side of MIT. There was liquid ... you to join us here at MIT. For those of you who haven’t made a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  real MIT students doing their own differential equations homework. Very ... have what it takes to win? 15:17 - 16:47 mitBEEF and Meatballs Roll ... together and maybe write some new carols. mitBEEF is a club dedicated to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip ... -by-the-Sea Play DDR in the Game Room Go rock climbing in Dupont Check out the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012