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• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  I figured that everything would work itself out. This was not to be ... always going to be that way. This does not mean, of course, that things ... , to buy into this myth that they should always be doing more. In the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  admission will not be rescinded on the basis of cancelling an AP exam you had ... will be emailing the link out to everyone who submitted an CPW event, the ... .  We also want to acknowledge the emotional pain of not being able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• FAQ / Transfer

  What are the deadlines for transfer admission?

  supporting documents by March 1, 2026. Please visit the Transfer deadlines
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  I find Chinatown trips to be absolutely magnetizing. Emerging from the ... way out, I beheld a wonder of creative marketing. The sign is to be read ... To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin ... endure PSETS, exams, and sleepless nights. What will be causing those ... Fluids. This is the class I'm afraid of failing. It's notoriously difficult

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  . The content was totally fair and just challenging enough not to be ...  urgent despite the grade not being finalized for months. Start making a Google ... fail out and be broke anyway, so what's a pair of jeans in the grand

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once ... handles research with freshman. Do they get to use the same facilities as ... space as grad students. The thing is, UROPs can be anything, really. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  being unable to do it is like watching the battery drain from all my ... have work to do, but my brain will not let me. It’s not even just ... 'm not sure I want to run for an officer position next year. I love the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• 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 ... she would have failed as an instructor if we are not able to contribute

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... reasoning for wanting to take the third exam, despite knowing that it would be ... ! Danny: I agree, but it’s so hard for me to take the easy way out. Why is

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  note="please be nice to them also"]admissions team[/annotation] will be ... date for EA. Early Action decisions will be announced on Saturday ... .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a ... -campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  Studies (but the latter will also be counted towards my Political Science ... UROPs. MIT proves WGS classes do not have to be abstract and useless; they ... problem sets. The 17.803 section also discusses why MIT right now is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a trapezoidal configuration such that a bird or butterfly will be able to move up ... more. 3:17 PM –  3:52 PM – The conveyor belt is turning out to be a lot

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• 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 ... ! Please, try not to explode. EDIT: 3:10 AM: Just finished studying. The ... Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  (and still very shell shocked) to report that I’ll be working on the God ... know what to do with - is the sense of being overwhelmingly cared for and ... here’s to hoping 2019 will be better.  

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  . Of course, being the black cloud that I am (a term used to indicate ... , trying, not to complain, but to explain, to understand why I let things get ... want to insert into that sentence. I regret not staying on top of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  Punjabi and it doesn't help that the dialogues are supposed to be gibberish ... interacted with have more often than not just genuinely wanted to be helpful ... . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it

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

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  exams here. But at the same time, it is really great to be able to do ... .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006