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• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can ... easy). Quite soon, after you begin taking exams at MIT, you'll be ... ) to be at the borderline between a B and a C. Course policies really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  jerk all the time. I mean, not all the time. Today I was looking at an ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a ... could never understand any of that math stuff!" (that's okay, I'm bad at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  insist on denying that the future is rushing towards me at a terrifying ... how much enjoyment I get out of yelling at the television during ... Adelaide would like it so much, so she suggested that Adelaide at least keep

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... things actually are. Because chances are, you're looking at them under the ... to eachother and the only vocabulary you knew at the time didn't even

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for ... a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... knew all at the very same time. And you’d wake up every day knowing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  an R&D center at a chemical plant, so when I interview there, I don ... , when I interview at home, someone showing up in a suit will probably make ... and prospective students that I'm available to talk at any time, before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree ... Hi! At CPW, some students in Macgregor were telling me that a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  grader, but not because of the grade they gave me at all. See, I have this ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the ... that (plus "so there!" at the end) on my next pset but well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  cool artsy exhibits worth checking out. Anyway, my story begins at Rotch ... 'm at Rotch, and I've milked Barton for books already. Then I milk Vera ... on the way back at 5 am. Sadly, MIT doesn't have either of these papers

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  a musician at first glance! And coming from what essentially amounted ... practical. Luckily, at MIT, many of the classes you take outside of the core ... Lamsweerde's "The Forest" series, from 1995. (Take a look at the other images

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  honest, I won't be offended by anti-Jersey jokes at all. I understand and ... so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my ... order. I'm spending this summer working as a lifeguard at Runaway Rapids

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  and speak with British accents, are at war with the werewolves (aka ... bullets are supposed to be instantly fatal and they fire them at each other ... antibodies, but actually it's kind of bad because at the same time Kate's evil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for ... example, my friend Jake got a terrific room his freshman year at the East ... rooms each year), but certainly not unheard of. My housing at Baker House

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the ... can actually be too early to check your bags (boo) Sit at the entrance

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i ... friendships. but being a full-time lab rat as a coping mechanism comes at the ... wanted to attend and meetings that i'm supposed to be at... i think i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  in between   That was definitely my worst semester in-person at ... experiences scratched at me quietly clawed away at the hope I've so deeply held ... , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... distances are HARD. 800 meters is sprinting 2 laps, the first lap at 80%, the second starting at 95% and ending at 110%. While I was quite mediocre - I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full ... ; When the decision day rolled around, I woke up at noon, 14 minutes before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  writing poems then, but really quite casually. At MIT sometimes it can feel ... lot of endeavors here at MIT you need this form of precision and rigor ... symbols that became a distant beauty that holds my will like the gold at the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  had been measured at 364.4 Smoots ± 1 ear, and bright yellow, purple ... .   Um, duh. So at 10 pm, I scooter on over to the bridge. There ... at the faded letters reading ‘Halfway to Hell,’ I ask him, “So, which

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023