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  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... ’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be precise - by receiving a very selective award from Google (of equal monetary ... can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... even the flame test. No CPW-goer would set out for a day's adventures ... disciples to curse the physical laws restricting them to a single location at

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive ... mechanical engineering deparment). Course 2 students see a lot of this place ... story about 2.670- I took it a year ago, took a million pictures, then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  undergrad experience. A lot of you probably have class rings from high school ... is anything like mine, it's got a pretty simple design. There's a ... year and high school's symbol on one side, and a custom design on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend ... right on the Massachusetts Bay, and I always get a little nervous on the ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a

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

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... over the years, including the most recent one. The first was a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a ... Isaiah N. ‘26, and they told me a little bit about life as an MIT lax bro ... and I’m a senior studying Chemical-Biological Engineering (10B) and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique, accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program, among ... girlfriend in Washington D.C. It wasn't until a couple days before leaving that

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  .36 (Neurobiology of Self) which is a class that focuses on the neural mechanisms of ... separate our physical forms from our thinking forms, if there is even a ... first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... received a prestigious graduate fellowship, he said he felt it, too. I ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  As per my previous post, I've been going through a lot of shit! But there's also a lot of incredibly fun and freeing things that I've been ... 21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ="Actually international development house"]iHouse[/annotation] was a dorm that was really ... ="83279" image4="83280" /] I even drew a giant pigeon mural in my room! 5. The ... curtains every morning fills me with a sense of accomplishment that words

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... , you catch a glimpse of a glimmering caramel orb. Its golden glow beckons ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to a website called partiful: think facebook events for parties. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  “What’s course 12 again?” That’s a question I deal with a lot when ... and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I focus on geobiology, organic geochemistry, and astrobiology. Those are a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  , and watch number grow up. These overlap a lot with idle games, though ... 't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games ... them at a time. There will be some spoilers, tips, and screenshots, but I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020