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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  understanding that this was pretty serious. I talked with my professor, my ... .012, and going with her as she picked up an Add/Drop Form to switch into 8 ... with 8.012. I wasn't happy with my performance on the first test, but my

  • 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.

  

  yourself did you share with your EC? What questions stymied you? I know ... 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 / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  something they'd rather not hear." We started with the example of how to tell ... . Seriously. She's also supercool, and gave a really awesome presentation with ... of matching up you up with a host based on your personalities. (I say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  and I passed the time by having a swordfight with Aaron's ski poles: We ... acquainted with some of the residents of the 23 suite through Sam's blog: Ruth ... simply because there are 3 bloggers on their floor. Anyway, we ran in with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been ... laps. My whole body is physically pulsing with warmth afterwards, and my ... shepherd’s pie and an apple with peanut butter for lunch. Then I work on my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty ... get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... just Apple products, but all products. With modern-day globalization, it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  difference. The professor starts each class with deep breathing (4 BPM). At ... summer and learned a lot. I read a lot of books. I became obsessed with ... human speech perception. I started spending significantly more time with

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  you mess up, you’re screwed, no matter what. Mix that with high achiever ... reason you’ve made up to justify that. It’s hard to say with confidence ... mediocrity if you go a different path that is riddled with setbacks and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  , with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... to be a perfectly average student with perfectly average problems ... would know this better if I had spent more time with the material over the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  writing seminar with a focus on re-telling fairy tales. Want to cross ... in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with ... eat boba with my housemates during the pandemic.[/caption] Liberal

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  Go (TGTG) website:  We dream of a planet with no food waste, and every ... me a standard bowl, filled with whatever proteins and veggies they had ... , Boston) I got a paper bag filled to the brim with mini cider donuts! A bit

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  Pretty Limited. Granted, we only attempt to do so with food items — and I ... than I could’ve come up with.   Since it’s celebrated on the ... and I are tired college students with a distinct lack of dragon boats

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  , peeked through the glass windows into makerspaces with devices of bright ... . Different, also, is MITERS, where there are shopping carts with electric ... there. Little did I know how much I would later fall in love with EC, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  below —  and in a separate conversation with MIT News today —  I ... with our designers at Upstatement — to add additional commentary ... decisions with respect to subsequent student success at the Institute. Within

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  from 1-4 on MWF and 1-2 on TR Do homework and sit with friends from ... ="People in my sorority."]deephers[/annotation] because they put up with my ... meet with friends spontaneously. I'd paint in my room on the weekends and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  ) made me relive the times i grinded through those tedious psets with my ... often never feel ready. so you get comfortable with just making yourself ... yourself with people who support you. challenge yourself in the ways that you

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... was leaving and i was hanging around with some other people left on the ... , i guess. and then on sunday… well, on sunday, i spent some time with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  four years than to take a look at something that's been with me through ... with some clothes I bought once, but I like the reminder to practice self ... like 2017 I think? A Hijabi Queen: I got this sticker with an online

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  needed. The break room would be stocked with kombucha and RX bars. “Maybe ... , one Wednesday night at 2 am, I was struck with the intense fear that I ... with lathe and plane but because he tended to leave his victims with more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  longer side, with the secluded bed; I get the window that faces the river ... 't sure what to do with them. Just serve them with oil? Apparently yes ... my hair. I am excited about classes, though I'm very frustrated with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021