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

  

  : 1. It’s efficient (and effective). You can brush up or study for a ... for the ASEs--especially Biology and Chemistry--went up significantly ... .01, Physics Mechanics (you’re still on the hook for Electricity and Magnetism

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  school, me and some guys met up for a bonfire and my friend brought a box ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... parts.    9:38 - Wake up really late because my alarm didn’t go off

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  thought I'd respond to the questions that have been piling up over the past ... get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start ... exams as well. Check out The First Year At MIT for details. There are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  that at MIT. If you complete the requirements for two majors at MIT, you ... pretentiously on your putative future office wall, for that matter). Somewhere ... website is terribly confusing about the requirements for completing two

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was ... ="upperclassmen often sell their belongings for cheap on dormspam as they're moving out and graduate"]senior sale[/annotation] was messed up (85% likely

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But ... -rotor helicopter that can be used for search-and-rescue missions, and maybe someday ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  , and it’ll be too late for me to catch up and leave any kind of impact ... ramp up my work for Arcturus outreach.  Arcturus is our autonomous ... when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  conveniently located) I'll just pick up what I need for the week. Extra spices ... , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all our communal items like pots and tupperware, plus enough room for each

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  psets started to pile up: 3 for 6.046, 1 for 7.012, daily assignments for ... familiar again. Even after being away for over 9 months, Boston still feels ... to keep up the first week. This semester, I'm taking 6.046, 6.810, 7

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for High School students. I won't describe the program itself in too ... 's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High ... ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  . Kai sums up these 2 months perfectly: Storyboarding Isbla: I actually ... Toonz is kinda stinky because it keeps crashing for no reason and doesn ... ’s definitely good for beginners! I’m just gonna do everything in Blender’s grease

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  hair dye fades fast for me, needs lots of maintenance so it ends up faded ... . But I really messed up again and didn't plan for it. He was really ... $20,000, approximately rounded up for taxes and some buffer because I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

   social issues unheard   We then drafted up our problem statement that would guide us for ... for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and ... group originally came up with some solution to disparities and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  to give up and not even apply for the host lottery. This might not seem ... long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  my experience for this summer in a methodological way, and I ended up ... I don’t give myself enough credit for the things I’m doing well, or I ... , beating up on myself just makes things worse. Sometimes the best thing to do

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  gotten 4 hours of sleep the previous night. I hauled my butt up in time for ... right[/caption] I made up for the lack of public speaking with the poster ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual ... hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim ... pass, please consider just signing up for a swim class. Not only do you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023