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• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  MIT is harder than your high school. In many cases, MIT is harder ... them will be #1 anymore. This is not Lake Wobegon -- not everybody gets ... classroom The most garden-variety way to ask for help is to find another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600 ... , senior Laurie Burns is testing and comparing two types of GEM foils that ... well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad ... ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  choose whatever is more pleasing for you, bunk beds or two separate beds ... two separate beds, but I don't know what the norm is, or if there is a norm. Over in Matt's blog, there was a question about why MIT is on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  goooooood MORNING YALL 🌞🌞🌞 ...is what i told my team at 6:30am in ... means a few things: spring is coming up 1/6th of the year has gone (already??) the weather is getting WARM [annotation note

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  - but when you declare that an entire field like biology is dumb i can ... you want to enter lasting relationships with is supposed to be hard, and finding jobs that you enjoy and which want to hire you is supposed to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known ... . Traditionally, the Boston Marathon is also [annotation note="this year it has been

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  it is a very strong report that will help prospective students and ... – something that is happening far too often. We also don’t want students who ... college – this is especially true at MIT – engaging and collaborating with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I ... so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... 're seeing some fluctuations in bed count. Burton 1 is potentially having an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  is my normal setup: I always carry my single notebook that randomly ... classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... seven places to P-Set: 1. Quincy Market, Upstairs by the GAP This is

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  tastes sour and another friend whose chair is comfortable to sleep on. a ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to learn is infinitely more valuable than my existing skillset an action

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a learning curve. By learning curve I don't mean "oh snap it is going to take me long time to learn all of these new subjects at MIT." It is more of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... numbering system because Campus Preview Weekend is coming up soon. I love CPW

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

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got ... . this is probably not an isolated feeling, and probably why some people go

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is ... , there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being ... devastated. It was the common cold, which is, dare I say, the most passive

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

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... phone. As Ajay found his profile for me, Lupe sighed. "This is what I was telling him. Branding is important. You need to come up with a rap name

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I ... rate than adding them to my to-play list. Oops! Trimps Trimps is an ... incremental game I've played, is how well-designed the core mechanics are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022