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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  else they will ask you to convert your GPA, and being the intelligent ... going to be smarter than me and I'm going to fail and I AM SO SCARED ... October... if you come in prepared to be the most amazing #1 person at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  given a fork and a task: transfer all the water from the full bucket to ... bucket to the next. After two hours, the second bucket would only be about ... enough to be grabbed like a ragdoll, placed the struggling, flailing boy on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners, who are an anonymous group who set the questions to be examined at ... supervision system is considered to be the highlight of the Cambridge ... there is plenty of room at MIT to be intimidated by the freshman taking

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  customer, ma'am, but Kim over here will be more than happy to help you out ... people you know are going to be your classmates for the next four years ... roommate the morning of the lottery, who turns out to be your soulmate - just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  miserably failed at attending all the events I had hoped to be at. While this ... this CPW: I will be... at Activities Midway on Saturday at the ... :) Rachel D. '16 will be... in the EC courtyard helping to dye hair and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  '12, not to be outdone, responded to the above by building a “short ... -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting classes. As Facebook would say, here's the status update: -Waves and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT ... mind for a lot of reasons, one being that because of the study abroad, i ... say goodbye to my graduating friends, some of whom i know will not be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... failed and don't feel like talking about it on the Internet. So don't ask! ... to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or... ? The TV is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  Wakefield and Nomi Sparks. The sixth edition of Fierce Forever will be held on ... my EC's details will be posted there within the "next week ... will be able to read chapters of a novel; I would recommend using the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  the coming months, do not let yourself be preoccupied about how it will ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have ... will hurt them because they won’t be able to show their talents compared

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  of and be first author on the paper describing it. In some sort of ... to be funded leads to what I like to call "last sentence syndrome". The ... "...and this research will lend insight into the process by which [choose

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  be like Matthew, the correct mix of wise and bully that is Prajna, the ... I will leave it at that. quantum is certainly one of the classes of ... Punjabi and it doesn't help that the dialogues are supposed to be gibberish

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly ... whatever is bothering me at the moment likely won't be my biggest problem in the future. There's no need to be too stressed. 3. Remember that a life

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  over the summer, and by the end of each semester I would be extremely ... feel increasingly like I need a really good post about all the cool things I've done to explain why I've been away from this platform. To be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  incredibly competitive with him or herself. We're all used to being the best, I ... admissions that you will be able to succeed, then you have a good chance of ... , and let it be casual. It helped me to think in advance about the kinds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  fine. It gives the same energy as 18.01. There will always be a weekly problem set due. There will always be multiple exams. Consistency. 8.02 Physics E&M. I hate this class. If I will ever drop a class, it will be

  • by Ella T. '25
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the ... of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being ... , after all, to keep being tolerant, when you feel like others will not do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... “Governing the Commons” made me think about institutions, and “Why Nations Fail ... success will mean in these jobs and (thankfully) not everyone wants the same

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  may be an ever-diminishing premium placed on the man who is different ... seeking uni-formity; let us not fail to discern the gifted mind, to foster ... . We believe that the mission of the Institute should be to encourage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  mustache, because he thought it would be funny for the official graduation ... deal more to offer than money, and the key question each of you will face ... have been given and the knowledge you have obtained... I hope you will

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006