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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  -long class by taking a test was too much of a gift to pass up. After studying ... MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  in number of sheets. The units, Dollar-hours per sheet, are known by ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... 's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  discovered that our rooms were connected by a set of inconspicuous doors and ... passed (along with most of New Haven) on our way to Science Hill: By ... myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  sort of got one leg over by jumping, and then, like, stumbled in. It wasn ... remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i ... up being pretty good.) i didn't have gloves, so by the time i got back ... that in allston and almost threw up because of the smog. but!!! there

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us ... my first year as an Admissions Officer and I was really impressed by ... by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6 ... could drop any one of my classes with practically no consequences for my ... reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  from the rest of the universe, surrounded by our own skin as people ... interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the ... everything everywhere all at once, the rock scene was apparently inspired by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  at an open house about quantum information hosted by the the Museum of ... made easier by public student-built tools at MIT, of which Harvard does ... Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a ... Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... upon by a great collection of butts belonging to the also awesome friends ... late nights are precipitated by something concrete and urgent: a pset, an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with ... track playing quietly in the background, periodically interrupted by the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  that I love. So, of course, I ended the semester by meeting up with ... Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on Conner 2 (second floor, Conner side). Each of the floors has its own very

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know ... which again by the way IS REALLY FREAKING HOT, and the first time

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017