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  The end of a chapter

  

  taught at much greater depth and breadth. We learnt about the ... classes I took at MIT during my freshman and sophomore year, which mainly ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  research position in their first year at MIT? That's right! They both can ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... research experience - or any at all - under your belt. Professors definitely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about ... about missing me while I was off at grad school, and now, I'm reposting

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  voting four times a second. MIT, which used to be at 300,000 votes was soon ... student at MIT had the script in their inbox. The e-mail thread that ... , at this rate we'll be #1 in about 6 hours

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  Last Saturday night, I was in my kitchen, looking down at two Pyrex ... Saturday night, at all.  It is not something I had ever experienced before I ... making this up."]crick in your neck[/annotation] from looking at an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , Nathan H. '20, Sandy W. '20, Nia M. '20 We left our wing at 6:50 p.m. to ... , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  'm interested in science. It's probably why I'm at MIT. I have tremendous ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... : I have read EVERY SINGLE CLASS DESCRIPTION for EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT AT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing acronym. at the beginning of every academic year, the mit list visual arts

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... about, telling the inhabitants 'to watch '93 at 11:30.'" That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school ... last at MIT. Gosh kids can be mean. Unfriended them on facebook, got a ... kind of felt like being rejected at times. But I also felt immense joy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... opportunities available at MIT for students at many levels of mastery. But given ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  his freshman year, and has been working at Draper Labs since the ... that mean I'm twice as good at writing as you are?" Adam: "Well, you're definitely not twice as good at math!") During his summers, Adam didn't have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... pushed back a year, letting me enjoy two and a half years at East Campus ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... heading back. After sitting down at my desk, the ALU didn’t seem quite so ... like the only thing in my life at the moment. The world was bigger than

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  So you might be looking at the CPW schedule and thinking...   ... parts of CPW is the massive amounts of delicious free food, but eating at ... are late at night. You have the rest of high school to sleep. K: Truth

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks ... question is not hidden within it at all, but barely-veiled, an unstated ... at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of ... stay in hell Sam looking back at undergrad Keri on getting the most out

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  , not even me, can give you an accurate chance at MIT! What I said then ... forum, not even me, can give you a meaningful chance at MIT. Why ... prepared to do the work at MIT, you will not be admitted, because we don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  Thursday nights, I usually use hints obtained from my TA at Thursday ... . (Note that most people at MIT like to do psets in groups -- it's faster ... bloggers care to complain/rave? 3. I should have stated this at the outset

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  kicks off "welcome week" for the Class of 2023. At some schools, maybe ... maybe (it happened to me) all three at the same time. A lot of the basic ... 'll look at those schedules and laugh your butts off. They will change. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019