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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  if you never took the class. This is a really good system, for several ... for an 8.01x (physics) test which was to occur the next morning. My ... was pretty difficult for me academically, since I didn't take AP Physics

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  grandmother's house for a few hours. Jose '07, shown in this entry, took a month ... that it's too fast for you, you can go back into single-variable (18 ... are they more about class placement? I can't say for sure, but I'd say

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... ) bunk room for about 5 hours. I got a lot of HASS reading done. =) Then, I found out that I got a new job! Ready for it? You sure? It's nerdy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... . Can I get credit for those classes and 'bypass' them? My teacher says if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  ="114813" /] subscriptions blue bikes singlehandedly responsible for me meeting my "get off campus" goal uber one for the five month free trial and uber

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... contributes for a covenant that goes deeper than just living there ... play] together.  But let's be real. I had no idea what I signed up for

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  weekend here, a whole four days before classes started, I got COVID for the ... being sick, this illness was notably bad for two reasons: #1: Zendaya I ... 'm talking I watched Disney Channel longer than I should have for Zendaya. Of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  counterclockwise. Rejoice! The next day, I created a custom face for the clock, one ... direction. We hung it up in the main lounge for the world to see, and a few ... years, money may also be exchanged for other goods and services, such as

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

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  recommend applying for next year if/when they run the program again) and about the story I told. But ultimately, I want to let this story speak for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  know for sure.    But one thing I did know for sure was that if I ... around MIT!  So I thought I’d ask people for recommendations and try as ... some footage of me taking electives for my concentration in Happiness

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals ... a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... that knit. For a relatively small lab with about ten or so people, that ... , collapse in my chair, and crochet for hours. I finished my first big project

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... courses again for this semester, I think I would've just taken something ... time, I hadn't even passed 6.101 (Fundamentals of Programming), for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... emoji. I was a 🅱️elevator 🅱️itch last year until it broke down for a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  dorm for all four years of undergrad. At this school, students can have ... undergraduate residential experience so varied. Some dorms are "cook for yourself ... dorm, Burton Conner (BC), which was under renovations for the past two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  consumed so much American media that I felt more than ready for this transition. However, nothing could have truly prepared me for the absolute ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  are done. say alyssa and ben were estimating how long it'd take for them ... been busy. despite spending hours cramming for 6.033 computer systems engineering, grading the final for 6.036 introduction to machine learning, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  right now," Luca said when we went in earlier today for lunch. Grace and ... station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset Valentines cookware set for weeks now. Something about heart-shaped pots and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  focus. It's just that when I step back for a second, I realize that I ... are particularly out of place for my life now. It’s just that the ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021