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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  MUCH TO POST ABOUT. The musical came and went, I registered for The Most ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each ... picking one to write about; while I fret, more pile up, and the Cycle Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up ... course material, both professors have contributed so much to the physics ... , fellow blogger Kano and I decided to conduct an interview to document their

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  -off things like "How much do you know about Canada?" and "Lockpicking 101" to ... to jump right in without too much additional training - and it'll be ... whole house, places the online order, and has it all delivered to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... just much easier to call it "Spanish Lit" or something? Really now ... Spanish-English dictionary and now I'm fully ready to take some Spanish at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... out to me, and I went over to Building 46 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... 's actually kind of funny—I was taking my cat to the pet groomer and on the way

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower ... qualified. Talk to some of the deferred students who post here, and each time ... 's easier than ever for excellent students to apply to and choose a school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  : How walkable the city is. And how, once you've been here a while, every ... think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and ... Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  sleep deprivation and procrastination. I stayed up late to do my work, got ... go to bed at 2:03 AM and wake up at 9:10 AM. Of course, my sleeping ... ridiculous, and second of all, I did not want to fall back into that high

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  to update this post once they reveal their identities ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the ... overall rankings to progress to the live game show. Thus I ended up 3rd and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  ’t structured to be done alone. And I am not built to spend so many hours hunched ... mostly been good albeit fragile and that there are people who listen to ... certain camaraderie to finishing a pset together at 3 am and walking down

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  time to enjoy yourself and to meet as many people as possible, freshmen and upperclassmen, and to get a feel for what MIT has to offer socially ... erases the events from memory once they occur, I also wanted to upload a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... .05 (biochemistry), every exam was effectively open notes, and we didn't have to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city and bike across the Golden Gate bridge. Now granted, full-time residents ... format?? Dilemma.) Simply lovely You don't have to stop biking once

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  , and the students are going to be great members of the MIT community. A ... I'm frequently asked about the students that are admitted to MIT. Who are they? What is their story? Beginning today, I'm going to be posting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  you walk around afterwards. And you freeze.  As much as I had tried to ... ! Unfortunately, as other responsibilities and stresses started catching up to me ... all too familiar. Standing there, too afraid to grab the bar and just do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  and drinks that you could smell from a mile away. Beast tried to make ... . He will be remembered always, and we wanted to dedicate a part of our ... Tetazoan handed a crowbar to some residents of Beast and told them to open

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer conditional admissions?

  MIT doesn't offer any special or conditional admissions. All first-year applicants fill out the same undergraduate application and meet the same testing requirements.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  .015 being spring classes and 7.012 being fall-only. Here's a reason to take ... 'll simply give you a link here. 4) Humanities and the FEE. There isn't much ... suffer greatly and come to despise all things humanities-related. (The same

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  connect to MIT; you only need a username and password. This is a much easier ... . My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I ... . Many thanks to Anthony, Mitra, and Mollie for their helpful comments. (I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called "e ... Spiderman To: [email protected] Date: 01-25-07 1:00 PM Subject: pi, Pi, pie ... Center in w11. Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007