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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  you have to pset and study too. (I actually believe that MIT is THE ... is that everyone wants to take the hardest classes that they can even dream of passing. There really is a strong work ethic here. For the most

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... crystalizaiton is very important to achieving different forms of chocolate. The

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Watsonville. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is rated the #3 ... spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness ... Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  dig up some tears is due to the fact that I'll be living on the MIT ... Housman's had his hand in it. And the cool thing is that this distinguished ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  is okay because there is beauty in the struggle and locking in extra ... interesting-looking course 14 classes I could end up wanting to take in the ... lectures entertaining even when I’m pulling up to class first thing in the

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

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  much reflection. The reason the week sent me buckling to my knees with ... them swam to the forefront of my mind, but I knew that the contrast in ... on the p-set, but there seemed to be a dispirited laziness in the way I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... in the spectra of these compounds which would allow organic chemists to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  the most miserable two and a half days of my life. IHTFP is a timeless ... it means different things to different people. This is false. The true ... was not enough to make up for the previous....well, 4 years in general

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... would suggest trying to take the advanced standing exam in that case ... , offered in three different-flavored classes in the spring and fall. Most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  figure out the things I wanted to take part in. As I mentioned, my ... [/caption] With all of the things I have done at MIT, I’m most known for my role in the UA, which is our version of student government—“we work to solve the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our temporary rooms: Not very inviting, is it? So we set right to work. The ... most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  sweet rice wine. I miss it so much.), we all went to the US army base near/in ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... Galveston, which is the Island south of Houston. We went to Moody Gardens and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  ), some part of me is still writhing in refusal to compromise with the ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  weekend to address those issues that are most important to you, the parent ... to would be in the Parent’s Hospitality Lounge. Grab a cup of coffee or ... , especially in the springtime, so you should be prepared for anything. Boston is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  from Charlestown, which is home to the Bunker Hill Memorial and USS ... (yet, unproductive) break. The weather only aided in the inevitable ... to teach about fifteen kids (between the ages of 8-12) about Italy! We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... II expecting high 700 in all. Yeah, btw my SAT I math is 700 (the most ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  interviews, however, if the nearest EC to the applicant is very far away (as in ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... MODEM, COFAS (and explain about them in the explanation sheet) or is

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... the content. It looks like it is written in a different language, which ... in the winter, I didn't care about funding. I was so excited to take

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  . but our bosses sometimes buy us boba so it's okay here is the title ... several different art styles and con the admissions office into buying us ... us do multiple art styles in the same video. and we also liked the idea

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022