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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  pass/no record already. Basically, first term freshman year at MIT, you ... their academic records. Pass/no record really helps MIT students quit ... committees saw when I applied to graduate school -- they had no idea that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  that I'd survived a year with a 4.0(/5.0) GPA -- thank God for pass/no ... no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... frat where you know no one. Yeah, don't let anybody tell you what "social

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• 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 ... hall who are all taking the class and can find help amongst each other 24

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  of this post. And while I'm no expert regarding MIT Medical, I do have ... Care, staffed 24/7 with at least one doctor on call; a small pharmacy; a ... there are no pharmacies or groceries to be found in offices-only Kendall

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  no barrier to entry: beginners are given the same opportunity to ... ] Gloria '22, Margaret '23, Penny '24 and I run an instagram account of ... labeled resistance. CPW Beaver stickers designed by Maxwell '24 [carousel

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  surface Cause underneath I could tell No, I couldn't, I couldn't tell One of ... was a lot smaller. From MIT were me, Brandon W. '24, and Alex H. '26, and from Harvard was Nathan S. Harvard '24. I've talked to Brandon and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  Shoqan. In high school, most American students study only 2-4 years of a ... it came to foreign language, I felt like 2-4 years wasn’t enough to ... teaching was wildly inconsistent. Some days, I had no trouble explaining

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... ] - like a 50? no one knows [annotation note="Intro to International ... decided I would start studying for the other exams I had not even 24 hours

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  party theme credit: Josephine R. ‘24, Fiona D. ‘26 three: word bubble i ... of had no expectation that the logo would survive or anything,  but ... is in no way optimal. It is in no way functional, and sometimes it is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  only pick 54 class units, while using the precious Pass/No Record grading ... probably won't worry about dropping a class you may fail. You’re on Pass/No ... points by the end of your first two years. First Semester: Exploiting Pass/No

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  no idea what i was talking about, and i kept saying, "you know, the ... station, no sidewalks, and he just...ambled off. (an actual cryptid ... i make bigger mistakes that seem like there's no coming back from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to ... have no idea what this means to me." And, she didn't. It was true. To ... possible. I started to just be present; I no longer wanted to leave. I found

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  screen was perfect. No one had texted me anything of dire importance. The ... newest model, but the next-newest.” “No,” I said, and said something about ... , stared out the window with no soundtrack.  Life sans phone was easier the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at ... other side feels like the sahara desert? yeah. i'm no longer sick, but i ... ? what if we leave each other? what if they replace me? what if they no

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  no plans i'm so lost p: same, college really changed me _____ m: i ... Before like I have no clue m: i wonder if like it’s a natural equilibrium ... you’ll have something to focus on that’s not school m: no but i

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass/no ... had no currency, just barter."]Sparta.[/annotation] Plus, it's great for ... freshman, off-campus, with no work-life balance. But if I took this class a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort. No ... said no experience required, but I still couldn’t bring myself to ask ... , spanning three floors of [annotation note="buildings 24, 26, 34, 36, 38"]five

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... family, they’re no longer “going home”, they’re “leaving home.” Or maybe ... eating way too much free food, I had no time to pine over being away from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  ” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a ... known as McCormick Hall, but on the dim side, biology and I were no longer ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students ... work 24 hours a day coming up with groundbreaking research or I could ... undergrads going insane would we? No, that'd be bad). 2:18 UROP: UROPs

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008