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  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  while to figure out exactly what I should look out for when choosing ... choosing classes. Everyone has a different goal for their MIT career: someone ... [annotation note="Or whichever future semester I'm planning for."]this semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  last stop for the bus, I considered setting an alarm to wake myself up in ... The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... supposed to leave Next House for Kendall Square, to ride the T to South

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it ... got a request for my interview story. There was actually a problem with

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  ready for you next time If I could grow up in a day, I would Come back ... simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... supervisor. me: i've been running it for A While now and it's on iteration 700 ... , and this month especially, I've found myself curled up in my room, too

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  my advisor to let me sign up for three humanities classes and one ... future a void. But maybe for this blog post we could pretend? We could ... backfired when I ended up with a bunch of Zoom meetings every day, as opposed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final ... serve as your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... trying to do Biochem Psets, to eating the Grill's pizza, notorious for it ... there was an immense diversity of people, some of whom were quite... for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  she was leaving for summer vacation, she gave me a peach Snapple. I mean ... admire her up the heezy because last year she happened to participate as a ... begged her to answer some questions for me, because while we have quite a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  professor put up a transparency with a "script" for a college-age heterosexual ... 're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs ... ("having lots of work to do", "sympathy for peers who can't go to some fun

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  opened up the floodgates of my hatred for those stupid HASS requirements ... tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had ... be required for my major." Mom: "So take 24.900, it fulfills all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  for people who are interested in scavenging for free food in random locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... foreign countries like Japan and China, so they end up taking those

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• 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.

  

  all night, then crashed in bed. 12:15 PM -- I woke up, sort of got ... , including staining some neurons with antibodies and preparing for an ... . 6:00 PM -- Step aerobics PE class. 7:00 PM -- I cheered for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  for a second one, but they said no. I really like playing it up with my ... idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t tend to leave home for college. And just coming all the way to MIT from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  he'd write up a version of it as a guest post for the blogs. And he did ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome ... me for, I was this year's Undergraduate Association (UA) president! As

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

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time. I had signed up because I was a silly little frosh who was signing up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... applied for many classes which historically had low acceptance rates: a ... world felt right for the first time since covid ripped me away from Europe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020