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  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... : grad schools couldn't care less about your nontechnical GPA. No, really! Not only does no one care, but if half of all your grades are B's, you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... . Additionally, no matter where you live or what your major is, MIT students can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  usually no.) This is not the story you were expecting to hear, was it? I ... remember that as the year after the economic apocalypse.  Second, I had no ... engineering is like focusing your volunteer search on charities, and I had no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  Stanford gym in my wallet, for whenever I'm in the Bay Area. No one tell ... interim. At this point, I had a space, but no equipment: no platform, no rack, no bar, no plates. This was early April, and seemingly everyone in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  at no extra monetary cost. Plus, you get a novel view on college ... neon visitor sticker, as well as the knowledge that I no longer need to ... behavior. You get short daily homework assignments. No majors, no high stakes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  hour wait, which was no problem for a group of excited young frosh like us. If pass no record could show, clearly we have the great skill of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  process thoughtfully, there are no shortcuts. Guidebooks can be useful if ... yardstick. But there is no substitute for figuring out who you are, who you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ." HIM: "Do you go to Harvard?" ME: "No!" HIM: "MIT?" ME: "Yes..." HIM ... sometimes is really because premeds get a bad rep as people with no life and ... "normal GPA"). There is no reference Science GPA (also known as the BCPM GPA

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  . My EA decision had no impact on my long-term future, despite how it ... way I did, but it adds another level of perspective. I can no longer ... you: I have no doubt that you will get through this time to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  , including almost an all-nighter. I got a 99 on the pset, but there was no time ... , so I had no break that weekend. We get a certain amount of acceptable ... time. At this point, I was no stranger to sleeping less than four hours

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  ’t say I truly miss the Lagrange multipliers or the gyroscopes (No – never ... down water, it was no doubt delicious. Now froyo: again, never had it in ... CPW, I remember hearing about how Burton-Conner has no heating. And when

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  . This is improvisation: there is no script, no written notes - just blank ... mouthpiece so hard to my lips that they went numb and no notes came out. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  no! He's not dead! He's still alive and quipping things like, "So I ... , and one in kinetics. Because of the way the courses are structured (no ... all. No, really. What you're going to do is take some reaction or some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  ="aligncenter" width="494"] 410 mem drive baby[/caption] Yeah, no. BC became my home as ... semester, I was in too deep—I had no desire to integrate into another living ... frustrating at times since no matter how hard the team fought for us, it seemed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  no way I would ever want to do more school, and I was ready to get out ... thermodynamics in a single night. Of course, no one is actually like that. In ... motion.   A "passive dyanmic walker"--this robot has no power, no

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  in a new way? Do you have no prior experience, and want to try ... little faith. No one is expecting you to waltz onto campus with years of ... information in hand, and sent her my resume that evening. ...no response. Find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  the idea (nobody really likes them that much, right?). No worries though ... . Obviously, I had no way of knowing this, but kudos to y'all. MIT did help a ... voting box. NO cheating. Ha. Sure. So, it's not really cheating unless

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to ... ten problem sets a week! But they have serious problems, no fun, and NO ... there was no way I'd ever get up again if I went to bed. And yet I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  procrastinated... and always kicked ass (which annoyed my friends to no end ... these, even if they are painful. No matter what your political or ... cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  going to go wrong, no matter how unlikely or disproportionate to the situation it is, no matter what you do to circumvent it. It's a combination ... no immediate safe space to go to if something bad happens (hence, the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022