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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  a pass/fail system. (Similar to 6.005 but labs are all or nothing) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E-CAD/Architecture Practicals - Similar to further java, two long term labs with a similar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... have no problem with this concept where everyone refers to classes by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience ... , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call class and majors by their course numbers my first few weeks here, because it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you ... freshmen that’s inspiring and a little nostalgic. I didn’t come to MIT with ... last year when I was remarkably overwhelmed by pressure to have an answer

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Edward wrote: "I wanted to send an additional recommendation by a close pal ... 's story as a complete picture - each factor affects each other factor to ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a ... to even out the rim; round the lip over with a soft sponge; and glide ... ’s controlled with a foot pedal whose angle corresponds directly to the velocity

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  that was close to campus but also allow me the chance to get a first hand ... company to watch a movie that person can be found just by walking into the ... women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  improved immensely. I was able to  get my checkoff, a live session where we ... to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... ; Just a GIR I put off til sophomore year because I wanted to take some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  back to MacGregor, a thunderstorm hit. And by hit, I mean a torrent of ... appears to be passing by Boston with only a moderate amount of wind and rain ... is the edge of the Tropical Storm/Hurricane Arthur (now lowered to a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  'll provide you with a full schedule when you get here but to get a head start ... all this time, I never cease to be thrilled to get to finally meet all ... shirts so keep a lookout for them. A great place to find a parent to talk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  ?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go ... worried about getting put in a quad, there are only 10 on campus, all located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... something new to my list, albeit I don't get it until May: the MIT Brass Rat ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I ... finally went to bed, I was exhausted. I fell into a deep sleep. (Even if my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a ... they belong. Suddenly we were interrupted by the all-male a capella group ... , who ran into the lecture hall like a superhero. “We’re here to deliver a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get to be a perfectly average student with perfectly average problems ... insecure about herself and needs to prove her worth to everyone around her by

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

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  a team who wanted to learn how to build an autonomous car by building ... to go walk there and get a sweet treat when things aren’t working as we ... , the cooling, the controls, the drivetrain, etc. I get a moment to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a ... meantime, I’m getting quite peckish. Perhaps a visit to the cafe car will ... experience; there’s a little more active work I have to get done in the next

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Cinderella Story as a seven-year-old and busting it down to All Star by Smash ... exactly I wanted to get involved with. Thankfully, I had a few friends that ... manage to get a spot on an intermediate dance in Dance Troupe and thus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020