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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  fun and explore life outside the classroom without being overly ... of friends who failed classes first semester, and they just re-took the ... -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  've deserved; I was being ridiculous about the entire ordeal). Failing tests isn ... , and I can kind-of do the psets (one of which I will be attacking as soon ... I'd failed the test, even though I'd studied hard; near the end I took

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be ... reveal some of the things I know for sure I will be blogging soon, as a ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  -olds -- any analysis which suggests otherwise fails to properly account for the ... be a little too easy? The major you write down on your application ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  students read the blogs as well, and you will get more diverse responses ... imagine what it will look like to me a few years down the road. You may look ... 'm sure things will work out. A.S. replied, Based on what I've read on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  ! Lots of good stuff coming your way from the studio - at the end of this month, they're releasing Ratatouille, which my mom never fails to pronounce as "Ra-to-lee" even though the logo has the built-in pronounciation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  will count.... And speaking of AP scores...those are also posted in the ... will be doing so from MIT campus. Then I'll actually have things to write about, which will also be exciting (and easier). I'm a little sad about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  , especially in the face of having their party privileges taken away. To be ... was not handled well, and similar parties will be dealt with much better ... , end up executing the silent dance party, there'll be many pictures to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  , and you are going to be visiting Cambridge sometime this fall, let the ... periodically as we do sometimes recruit new ECs through the year who might be ... , the subject, the process, etc. Remember that the alums will not have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  limit. Unfortunately, this appears to be the limit of absurdity as fun ... infinite knowledge. 9:20 PM: Blog. After which I will travel across the land ... next week, this weekend would be the cherry lovingly dropped on top of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to concentrate on assignment again. Fail Browse memes Get hungry Eat all ... the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being ... recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head ... Singer named Sheila Jordan who would be performing that night with the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  reality is that it won't be the same.   I know dark clouds will ... undergrad life will be behind me. The person I am in my home at East Campus ... will be what the wolf in this song is - domesticated, and a thing of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  people being willing to help me do timed transfers in my experiments so ... blogging will no longer be My Job™ once the clock strikes june 1st. the blogs ... community in the past few months. mostly, how i wouldn't be where i am now

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  percent on a test at MIT, rest assured that you guys will be the first to ... DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... as the second-greatest moment in television history. If memory serves

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  objects in the picture be more closely arranged in the shape of a rectangle ... origins of We don't know when we will be reunited with memory mushroom ... This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  . i've already written all the music i will ever write for the ohms, and none of it will ever be as good as the first song i heard from them ... failing for the most part. it’s been a lot of fun and we’ve had some good

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  have more school ahead of me, but it just will not be the same. although ... leave. yes, we will be in touch, but it will not be the same. something ... relatively narrow area of research, i will also miss the opportunities i have

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  will candidly admit - we may not be the most well-prepared when it comes ... the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down ... if she gave the most eloquent and expressive lecture. We, being MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014