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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  Being the first three-day weekend of the academic calendar, Columbus ... s or something. It may not be abundantly clear, but the fall foliage ... lake: Still, MIT students will be MIT students, and some people couldn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  teachers at the Institute. BE.010J: Introduction to Bioengineering Prof ... news about classes not being offered in the spring, this morning I heard ... you pulled a hack (though the hosts said "prank")? Is it wierd to be in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  you’re reading this blog, that question will probably take the form of ... , and I had reason to believe that the coming year would be better than the last. College can be a blinder. It can screen you from looking too

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  be a blogger. The blogs were almost solely responsible for my ... arrived at MIT with the raw materials I needed to be an adult -- maturity ... could be proud of. I'm not all the way there yet (who is?) and I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  . Pictures of the lounge will be coming shortly, so you can judge our efforts ... . Happily, even though this year's set of puzzles turned out to be one of the ... out the puzzle I was trying to print. As Will said, "I frightened it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a ... favorite. The first issue can be read for free. Once upon a time, each of us

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  . There might be a voice in the back of your mind telling you that "maybe ... check. Because I'm not who I could've been. I will never be. Sure, you ... . You can just be you. Right now, right here. That doesn't make the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in ... ARE YOU PUMPED FOR CPW? Who wouldn't be excited about 72 solid hours ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  consensus is that this behavior will begin at least by the two-day student ... may be a liberal from the OC, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to ... Today was the first day of academic year 2005-2006 at old Tech! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  be something that will be quite interesting for most of you :D (and I'll be back home in 2 weeks! :D) "Hopefully my life will be perfect, all ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  love books and will be at MIT, this is a quick public service ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course, it was CPW and the weather was magnificent. But sometimes the most

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  labeled as, A GUESS. When Matt or Ben post when the decision date is we will ... I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the awesome capabilities of this wonderful invention called "The Laptop." It has

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  opportunities. There could be more programs I don't know about yet, but I will ... My Wednesday: 9:00 AM -- Swim Test at the Zesiger (Z) Center. For some reason, I waited until senior year to take the mandatory swim test

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  Being aromatic is where it's at.. Take it to the bridge! [Bridge ... but then a base will take an H away Take it to the chorus! [Chorus ... 'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  money. If you drop any later the class will show up on your transcript as ... will only show up on your [annotation note="the one that MIT keeps, not ... tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  departmental funding for the exercise. The next and fifth trip will be to study ... and where I'll be heading off to again sooner or later. The first three ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  understand that being a good fit goes on both sides- the applicant and the ... When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that ... you'll be seduced by things like the First Year Summer Mailing over the ... classes out of the 8 must be "communication intensive", or CI-H, and at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  before.") "Grades will be computed by two methods -- the cumulative and ... can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and ... choose between being nice to my brain and body and doing well on the

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

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  lot better once you have gotten sleep and you will be able to enjoy the ... will be whispers from upperclassmen across the courtyard, bitter from a ... members of the Educational Studies Program here at MIT! Kate R. '14 will be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014