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• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  't stop once you're a college student (often, it gets worse, lol). * In many classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  middle of your sophomore year, to allow time to get a pre-medical advisor ... rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll ... stamps for us to spam irreverently. We proceeded to arrange them in every

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  and families in order to get a better education, so that my siblings and ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... (163cm 50kg) as a sophomore in high school. We were seven people short of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  on Massachusetts Ave., a very short walk to Target or Hmart, so it must ... to find interesting patterns and learn more about the people in dorms ... made a bunch of jank formulas to find each question's response

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... satisfaction in mounting things to a wall" /] I finished the structural modifications in the first two weekends and plan to get aesthetic modifications

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... : lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into ... understand. Just know that you're going to be evaluated in your own unique

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  really about to spend the money to book a flight to Vegas to go to CES in ... startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since ... stand directly in its path. Oh, also, holograms. Coming soon to a future

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  , in the sense that you get to meet a lot of new people every year. Up to ... minutes out of your busy days to say “hi” and get to know people you see in ... you’re a freshmen looking to hang out with your fellow classmates or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be ... , getting swept up in the energy of a new academic year. But this fall, I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... news My favorite thing to do in the summer is cook up a storm, because it ... year is a pretty normal time for biology people at MIT to get involved

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We ... in half before putting it on your lap; when drinking a glass of wine ... straight hours of short lessons ranging from "How to ask for a date" to "At

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... of my shorts and trying desperately to find a date to prom. Then one ... here. I'm also glad just to know I'm in college getting an education, so

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  before we realized we simply just needed to get outside of our room. We ventured outside behind Baker House, only to get knocked over by the blizzard ... dress for a blizzard... If you're from a warm place and you are a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... thing you can think about in your mind without worrying about getting ... happened to be in the audience and offered her a job. She joined Digital in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... 'd advise you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... a Thursday morning in 2007 seems to be a juicy, cooked-to ... Beef is supposed to have a meeting soon. **Just kidding. No, really. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  (for example, “end call” or “go to another page”) for every point in the ... . It has to be an idea you really like. Drew: Start early, and get a ... This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  a project to visualize our Netflix viewing data. Expect to see it in a ... track from 1st to 6th grade. I tried to get back into it last summer in LA ... to do that for the sole purpose of getting swole enough to do a kip up

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience ... life!! No -- stop, this doesn't mean you get to quit school since you're

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016