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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the day before, or just had too much random stuff to think about that ... penalty, but trust us that it becomes much harder to write it the longer you ... visit them and talk to one of the S^3 deans if you need advice, need to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... motivation, as well as rendered me unable to put as much effort into some ... I needed to allocate to things and, at first, was evaluating myself in

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  requirement for many of the classes I wanted to take, and as much as the content ... much as I can to make it easier for myself in future [annotation note ... got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  hope to try them all without bankrupting myself with import fees and ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  : given a problem, what data do you need to solve it, and how do you ... skyline. “There is so much for us to do.” ... , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  they have way more time to finish a task then they need does, and I ... will, nearly everyone does), and be prepared to do less but much much ... also needed to complete the entirety of the pset in one night, so we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  actually, there’s just so much to do. In a literal sense, there are so many ... does being a Muslim woman impacted your day-to-day life? “I think the ... Linda Sarsour. What does this mean to you? “It’s really great to see

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  transfer. "He spent the whole tour talking to me about what he didn't like ... with incomes of $200,000 to $300,000 applying for need-based aid," says ... it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... so much more to my job than selection. We get to present information ... want to make the process less daunting for you (at least, as much as we

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  this picture. To add insult to injury, once I finally found shelter just ... was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  to as simply 'Technology.' "]Technology[/annotation] to flourish. However, not everyone at MIT cares that much about Technology. Some people here are interested all kinds of different fields, from anime to manga

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... , "life after college" is a scary but also exciting topic to think about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  asks, "Does anyone know if CPW is restricted to students who are accepted ... question, how much does getting recruited help you in the admissions process ... ... though, due to my time restrictions during application season and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  every once in awhile, that place you always walk to when nothing makes sense and you just need to be somewhere else. I chose the road I didn ... .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  reminded me that I needed to come pick up my cute new cheerleading t ... for snickerdoodles at LaVerde's, and they needed to get baked -- I find ... grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  much time the story would take to complete."]we point a previously ... the main codebase, at least two team members need to approve it ... , ready to accept defeat. i feel like i have all the pieces i need to make

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  scarred the owners so much that they needed to put up this sign.   5 ... Science and Systems. For the class, we needed to "reserve" the robot for our ... , meaning that if a BNSF railway train needs to get by, that train will get

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  classes as much as I am, they're already building their résumés up to levels ... person does to achieve his or her level of success, and odds are the people ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  quickly, almost feverishly, as I could to get down as much 8.012 knowledge ... finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  narrative. So it'll be much messier, but hopefully provide some insight as to ... wanted to give Blackburn as much room to speak as possible. Anyway, here ... , it would be much worse if it was ignored. Better to get some attention

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021