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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  morning, I was going to go to physics at 9, but then I decided I was too ... .02 (calculus) recitation I wanted I had to switch into 8.01 (physics) at 9 AM. So ... into 8.01 at 11, changed my calculus recitation to 3, and went back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• 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 ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten ... in point: At 1 AM one night in November freshman year, I was studying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  , how would you describe your first year at mit? relieved that you ... comfortable talking about it, but what's your grade like so far at mit (1st and ... in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  extracurricular activity when you first come to MIT, at least until you figure out ... summer and the Activities Midway at Orientation, and you'll get overexcited ... six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  .27 (Principles of Human Disease), so if I have to feel like crap, at least I can be ... than you can shake a stick at (7.20, 7.23, 7.27, 7.28, 7.29). On an even more practical note, if you get really sick at MIT (that is to say, not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for ... works one day a week at Massachusetts General Hospital curing the sick, so ... scientists in the US, twelve of whom are at MIT, including Morgan), that's the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard work is the virtue at MIT. MIT is often said to be more egalitarian than ... or not-so-secretly like working right at the edge of our abilities. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  , I run into your doors like it's the first time, ogling at your immense ... cut short to direct my mother to the airport, do not fret at the sight

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  housing options at MIT!) You can learn more about all the residence halls, and see more videos from previous years, at the MIT Guide to Residences

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... [salad bar; only on Tuesdays at Simmons] = Avocado toast Cheese pizza

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the final round. I looked around the room, at the wood paneled walls ... , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... make us relax. We had no chance of winning, but when I glanced at my

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this ... -black color at a time, ostensibly to show everyone I was hardcore but secretly ... future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... -MIT years of working in tech. I did a postdoc at Harvard, in computational ... ’ve been a street medic – a first aid volunteer – at protests since 2011, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... all but one box and guess the number inside. If at most one advisor is ... embroidery, and become a master at advanced chickenology. [carousel image1

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  include:  my accent (“can you say no for me?”) my confusion at what a ... do we care about their foot"]foot [/annotation]is  my confusion at ... looked at me, and was like, “huh. boysenberry. haven’t heard that one

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing ... almighty MIT time. MIT time is a rule that applies to [annotation note="at least for undergrads"]every single class at MIT[/annotation] that states

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this ... LIBRARY! If you like audiobooks, consider getting a FREE library card at the ... -3 weeks at a time, and the library has so many copies of the more popular

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot ... no plans, no itinerary, no agenda (well, until August, at least) and ... surgeon, but also good at all of these things too: she’s basically the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  people at mit"? i think it's mostly undergrads, people in related friend ... tribe." I think it's dishonest to say that everyone at MIT likes everyone ... potentially being true. What makes the people so good at MIT is that every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... laptop. Two families with small kids order at the register. Every few

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023