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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... 've been blessed. Can't remember the reagents for the reaction you have in ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  ’t due for 2 whole days (!!), so I was in no particular rush to finish ... reasons for this. For one, at this point in the semester, I had a growing ... extracurriculars in the last semester, and I was slightly annoyed at myself for

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... particular topic. In the first week of class, for instance, we watched ... they know for sure. I know it's tough, but hang in there - I'm rooting

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend spent in Columbus (where I ordered my wedding dress, yay! Now I just have to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  opportunities. I lived in Paris for about 10 weeks during the summer of 2009 ... Hello! Sorry for the recent lack of post! After an epic trip around ... approaching (of couse, after the horrifying super intense final week for people

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  bug for me PLEASE in central square where tosci's used to be PLEASEHi, I ... for the past couple of days. IT's been wrecking me-- couldn't sleep in ... . The bug should be super easy to kill. It stays in one place for long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  (turning in p-sets and the like), prepared soup for everyone. It shouldn’t be ... , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a ... list in search for any video game based UROPs. This IAP, I'll begin

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  -nighter."  Apparently the club fell apart for a while but in March it was re ... Hello again from out in the real world!  It's been a little more than ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... together for another 30-45 minutes. That night, we stayed in our hotel back ... for themselves: Friday, July 15 On Friday we got back in the car and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  in. And for the first time during finals week, I wasn’t stressed about ... to store various mugs for when friends come over in the winter and ... experiences will end. But for now, I think this will have to be an issue for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  for feedback. Work on the website began in the middle of week 2. A ... competition.[/annotation] Teams can compete for over $20,000 in total prizes. We ... . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  narrower. There's a big need for effective, articulate communicators in ... MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  machine in the Hobby Shop for smoothing out wood. Andrea: pokemon lamp ... This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3 ... Management"]IDM[/annotation] and the Infinite, as in, it's in the basement. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... , in the midst of dispossessing my own kidney and grapethirsting for ripe ... closets and slurping their eggs half-cooked in cereal spoons for breakfast

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... were a lot of people contending for seats in the observation car earlier ... concern, therefore, is that a winter storm warning has been issued for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for ... provides a "broad base" for physics at all. The approaches in the two fields ... have any chance of getting in?? I replied: Thanks for getting in touch

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... = "stands for Independent Activities Period, in which MIT students have the ... papers for my UROP. In this way, 24.09 has indirectly served as a constant

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -scalding hours in preparation for an all-bacon dinner for 40 people, packed two ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008