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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to ... subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  plate and applied his physics knowledge to explain why latke is a “ ... handed out paper plates to everyone, and the half of the lecture hall ... , compared to the superior and highly evolved hamentashen. Second to last

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  subjects like UROP and Arts. I am SO excited to roll out the new layout and ... identity (including mailing address and activities) just to match the profile ... woman's attempt to change the world -- and so far the world has barely

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  much right now so I should also try to do X as well", and then you ... files and told to compute the properties of various galaxies found within ... this bright over here and this bright over there" to "

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a ... Plants” and “Eyewire: A Game to Map the Brain”) Images from the Spokes ... friends didn't have the confidence to pursue a topic they loved, and that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  inspire the girls to commit to STEM careers and overcome the gendered ... , and a few even expressed interest in MIT. In addition to my pitch on MIT ... sticks of spaghetti, some tape, and a marshmallow and instructed to build

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... Jojo and Diane, who rocked the reg desk next to us for many hours. After ... to snap this pic of me with Mollie and Jessie. The infamous festival

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  and three additoinal pieces of chocolate to the door. Again, I'm an ... so much time to study I faced doing an entire 18.06 (Linear Algebra ... of chocolate chips while at Shaw's, and invited me over to New House 3

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  became much happier and friendlier. We all went back to the Dot (the grassy ... ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle ... back after Thanksgiving break. And somehow with three problem sets and a ... I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  ’re like me, and you’ve always hated summer and the fact that we have to ... bed around 2 PM and not get out, that there was less to distract me from ... community in and around Haight-Ashbury to capture not only an iconic cultural

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done ... from, and how I used to be. I used to be afraid of change. Complacency ... willing to go out and make things happen (all with a healthy dose of both

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... started to close the door, Dr. Egan looked into my eyes, and said quietly ... my life. I decided not to apply to colleges, and instead to try to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an ... , expecting him to be glad to see me. He swatted me away and went back to sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to ... +" is not something you can say you want to do and achieve with complete ... introduction to each dorm) today and will be sent out with the May Next Big

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  , that much I could see, and the only way forward was to metaphorically ... could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... , of saying this is mine and this is how I want it to look. I couldn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and ... I learned and the grades I earned. But If I went to more lectures ... do. And often, I have to remind myself that things like this are easier

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  assets MIT has is the people. Coming to MIT I was a pretty shy and reticent ... that it is both fun and worthwhile to get to know the people that you ... here come from all different walks of life, and it's really great to be

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007