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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... didn't know how to answer any of the questions. "That's ok," I told ... 't able to do any of the problems. People all around me were blazing through

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  &m's, the release of Leopard, dancing to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now", and ... pretty.) A big part of orgo is trying to synthesize molecules using a ... the driving force behind the new age of space travel because of that one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  openings website, just to get a sense of what opportunities are out there and ... intellectual stimulation. I didn't want college to be just a continuation of high ... above pertains only to MIT, of course. You'll find people much smarter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  2.006 test (which was likely to be VERY hard). All of a sudden, in ... was going to use that week to catch up, do a bunch of practice problems ... . I was going to be forced to take a test I was ill-prepared for and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  beautiful, detailed paintings of landscapes, while others are abstract to the ... passed down to generations of EC residents. It all started on floor 5E ... story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my ... brought up on my screen. Some were easy typos to resolve, but some of them ... “an overload of information that makes my brain hurt when trying to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the ... Boston to Hynes Convention Center. The vaccine clinic at Hynes is one of ... location marker for my portion of the observation area next to my writing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  entire work force of the factory was able to improvise such detailed lyrics ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly ... administrators and students, was set up to explore new options. At the end of this ... ). Students in those dorms will have to sign up for a meal plan that consists of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming ... Lima students, to a website that promotes local artisans and their ... received an email looking to build a team of computer scientists to come to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... tried to rehash as much of my Chicago essays as possible. But man, did I ... my decision was. My dad didn't force me to go to MIT, don't get me

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a ... Associate Carl Martland, from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... of supplies to send to the rescuers at Ground Zero: socks, contact ... getting lots of responses to my applications, did several phone interviews

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... , and the webpage says something to the effect of: "WARNING: THE NEXT PAGE

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  't stay up late anymore. Of course, it’s probably due to sleep deprivation ... my East Campus room, and attached to the outside of a house). Trader ... nevertheless. It's part of why I enjoy going to work at the VA Medical Center

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... Smoots as a measure of distance? See? It's actually really easy to go ... "bridge loops" covering a wide range of mileage, so it's not too hard to get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... experience the wonder of exploring them. I don't want to be stuck in Boston

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  of an Anna's burrito to that of certain Schedule II drugs; in a ... sources of graphic content. Also, how am I supposed to center captions with ... tongue) which seem to scare most of my friends away (my verdict: decent

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... important to our form of communication. The web addresses we need to connect

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011