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  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... room or common area. if you're selected, you pick a time to visit the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... trying to bring people together to do fun stuff. For example, a few days ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to drive down for the eclipse so

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... "Go to class. Go to class. Go to class." But that's for dumb kids who

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  unfortunate has happened to them, and they just need to be cared for a little ... moment, of going to the Institute, and of caring for others. On a day-to ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  neither, in all honesty, do I. To recap, I’m here for MIT’s Four Weeks For America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  fulfilling internship at a company I never expected to work for: Amazon, in ... desire for a "passion" that I've shared: I'd like to reassure you that the ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 Videos Program. That last one might sound a little familiar to the ... I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  always been a family affair for me, and I longed to eat with other people ... ’t have psets due until the second month so I scraped by for a while. One ... anymore. I think I used to see eating as a reward for good behavior rather

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  is closer to a complete end, something chosen for its own sake. The ... [annotation note='CourseRoad is a tool MIT students use to plan their classes ... for the future. Each of those skillsets corresponds to a set of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... back to this, I promise. To give us a running start, let's look back at ... moved back in with my parents and went back to my old summer job as a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  it seemed impossible for us to finish it by six. I felt that it was a ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... likening my next four years to learning to swim: You can cling for dear life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None ... : for example, asking black students to indicate their race before a test ... anxious sometimes but I know rationally that a lot of this is due to outside

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... these for a class I took spring semester, CMS.840 (Literature and Film). I ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  to do anything but check out and stare at a screen? I long for boredom, for free time and a carefree attitude to take me wherever. I’m exhausted ... I had just weeks ago. I try to ignore it for the most part, giving it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever ... can hurt a lot more for people with technical brains, because we tend to ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  some assignments, and went to office hours for a different class that is ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011