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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  (2021–2022):  The spring credit limit for first-year students will be ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... students and will keep them on track for graduation.” After the first year

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  being in different states, even if the appointments were virtual. my ... being in a position of good fortune. five. for the past few days, i ... people who stuck to what they wanted, like the kids who wanted to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  important and you should eat it. Where will you be eating lunch? Maseeh? The ... with the GIRs. You should be paying enough attention to them that you ... semester. The big requirements you should be paying attention to early on are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  've been. The author criticized FSILGs to be "MIT's willing accomplices" in ... not be tolerated[/caption] Unfortunately, I was weak of will. It ... together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  , the obstacles in whatever form they may be will make you stronger in the ... 0400 in the morning, then so be it. MIT in 2018 had a 6% acceptance rate ... straight to the bathroom. I could hear the water running as she seemed to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused ... for so long, and i'm excited and terrified to see where the chips will

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... lesson about trying to get projects done during the semester. It may be ... attached the legs directly to the top, they would be wobbly (especially

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  it up and be a big girl. I enlisted the help of my fellow bloggers so ... would give us), so we needed to be extra speedy to solve all the puzzles ... managed to touch you, you would be “eliminated” from the game. (I later

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  the ones you read will be full papers. Other common tracks are student ... the Research Obviously, this *should* be the first step. For me, my ... message was that it would be interesting if we had kids play the game with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  eight hours of sleep per night and if I don’t have anywhere to be I will ... reading this article the other day about how we can be discriminatory in our ... empathy. Or alternatively, the empathy we feel for some people can be more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I will be part of the first graduating class of 6–14's. (Computer Science ... certain kind of courage, the kind that I will need very soon as I figure out

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  failures are gifts that will lead to successes down the road. [caption id ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... magnitude of the bars for periods 7 and 8 may be similar, but during period 7

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I ... observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of being "out" are not borne equally by all people. The point of this post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... was looking for criticisms, as the paper is due to be published soon

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  , because the other night I slept at 9:35 PM telling myself that it'd just be ... , and I'll be graduating. That's probably the closest I'll ever come to a ... end up fundamentally okay. There's the feeling of being in a group of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  removed. The parents of some green card holders and U.S. citizens will be ... deportation and legal work permits, I still live in fear that my parents will be ... and how we see how the world should be in the future. We don’t only have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  , then all of my loudness will be for nothing. It’s the same thing with ... poetry about being gay, and then I came out. My parents weren’t the most ... I can even pin down an identity that will stay with me for the rest of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , superior, but the differences cannot be resolved. Harvard and MIT are two T ... agent, if you will. I ogle at the elegant architectural designs, stare ... places again, including the sunny Boston skyline. Being a double agent can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  propulsion system. The next few months will be a whirlwind, in a good way, but ... will be responsible for the impacts of that work. So far, I feel good ... the last few years, which makes it hard to be certain about where I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021