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  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  seems very good and I am willing to practice physics. I used to avoid it ... , I used it to rob a bank [holds up NERF gun he designed] then it ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... explicitly designed as such, I like to use CourseRoad as a quasi-MIT simulator ... answering questions like: Is it possible to graduate without ever writing a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  opportunities. For our seniors, it will be nice for many of them to have a job ... , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  . Some folks acted quickly to make Matt and me aware of it, as well as ... DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  this year, one that I wrote about it in the “我没去过北京/I Have Never Been to ... cultures. It took, and continues to take, a lot of time and energy--I may ... , it can be a little depressing--like you don’t really have a particular

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a ... , garnering small bits about what it takes to build a successful company from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  feel like I used to be happy -- and then Covid neatly excised a year and ... process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... to tell myself that there’s not much I can do about the past, and that

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  on the highway, or the service road next to it. Particularly when I'm in the right lane on the highway, and it suddenly tells me to "turn ... because I'm in a spaghetti-type junction, so it starts going crazy trying to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  prospective students. The transition happened quickly and I didn’t have time to ... for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  mini-laptop, and an entertainment center. It's rarely used in the method ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... really hard to refine my Japanese ability (so I can keep up with the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I ... on Independence Day every year. He very kindly offered to take myself ... least now, I can use a screwdriver without stripping the screw and use a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... more crazy things? To put it another way: what was three months of not ... just play it by ear and do whatever you like for a while. So, to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  still have all these matches to play! Using what I know now, I can make ... guest post series* Theory: If we were to use the World Cup as an analogy ... heavily invested during soccer matches; it’s a fact. I can barely stay still

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  this one -- I don't have to use it, but it's nice on winter mornings. I ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a ... : they're not just for kindergarteners! I never used to take short naps

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  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 ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their

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

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I ... other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to ... , using public transit, and eating better food. That’s not to say that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... they said that it wasn't in their department. Why can't Musical Theater ... ...we sing too! Personally, I find it necessary for musical-theater students to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps ... 'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  said that it’s not used for anything and it’s just too big to get out of ... obsession: of the kind of person who can be an astronomer, of marching to the ... discovery. Exaclty how this came to pass is a long story and I'll skip it here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century ... WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019