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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  flexibility in choosing your classes; you get to pick six electives from any of ... convince your GRT to get you a cat or dog and keep it in their apartment ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the ... information you need to get you started, including instructions to set up your e ... , you get to choose your dorm. You rank all of the dorms in order that you

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  to leave, which meant I had time to change and get to my next class on ... ’s really satisfying working out, not to mention an awesome habit to get into ... Kevin does them. That just goes to show you that at MIT, your classmates

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  , which will take a lot more thought and I will get to at a later date ... . Kim asked if it's possible or easy to get a single as a freshman at MIT ... 's possible to get a single as a sophomore, junior, or senior if you want one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... , making it impossible to get out. We spent a lot of time troubleshooting, to ... excellent introduction to maker culture and allows you to get dirty in hands

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons ... hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  ;   Things to bring Your cell phone. Your cell phone charger. A ... with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag ... homework over CPW, you’re doing CPW wrong. Not food. You’ll get a card with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  to get your rational mind with your emotional mind working together to ... Speech at Stanford, Steve Jobs said, “Have the courage to follow your heart ... right for you. That is why you must learn to trust your intuition, which

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  World AIDS Day 2008 Spread the word.

  

  organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global ... lighting up with little red ribbons as well. Do your part, spread the word ... gets infected with HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, you all aren't actually here

  • by Snively '11
  • December 1, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the ... , and a tshirt. There's actually a lot to take into consideration when you're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  'm trying to get over this feeling). The feeling that I shouldn't blog until I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I ... best to get you psyched about MIT. But anxiety runs high, as you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  getting your footing, it's not a requirement by any means. It's not a ... embarrass you or for you to wear around your head like a crown, grades are a ... 't worry about your grades, it's an opportunity for you to figure out what it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  -blank: “Do you think you’re getting all of this because you’re a girl?” That ... could’ve resorted to self-deprecation (you’re right, I don’t deserve this) to ... might be nice to my face, but I know they were secretly upset. They didn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is ... respond to this e-mail with your name and your year. In the case of too many ... be taken care of. People will seek you out, ask to hear your ideas

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  glad Which reminds me, to save more money Gotta get Dial Gold - as my ... to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  homepage. I’d encourage you all to watch it if you’re interested--it’s pretty ... ’m going to actually teach you things now/get you closer to the “real world ... daily)   1. Introduce a General Concept. If you’re supposed to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... !)  When your walls come tumbling down, you don’t have to rebuild them.  You

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about physics, or midterms, or having

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  , unless you want to take 7.014 because you're a huge fan of ecology and ... 's best for you. I know you're all getting a ton of stuff thrown at you now ... 're trying to say is that you're not alone - there are three thousand

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009