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• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story ... MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... : just outside of Winnemuca, NV train: #5, one hour and 58 minutes late

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... good decision, as 6.2540 is now one of my three favorite technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... this long at MIT without getting some form of disease. I'm sure part of ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the clings and clangs of construction (because Boston-Cambridge is always under

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I ... of this particularly difficult semester and the beginning of summer

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  By Fatima '25, one of my roommates!   i have been away from ... probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... , wishing I could constantly be in the in-between of here and not quite there yet. Because lately I've felt as if I'm running out of time. The way my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually ... that time? Not really (See #2). So, with a hefty bit of insecurity and

  • by Ella T. '25
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 21, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... all kinds of snacks and critically analyze the goods like the food

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT ... count the number of people who watch the webcast, it is the most attended ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... major. I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to approach this, but ... make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  courtesy of @jovilly_ on Twitter[/caption] [caption id="attachment_58337" align="alignnone" width="1152"] courtesy of CP_OD on Twitter ... hometown of Portland, OR. To be honest, my first year at MIT, the heavy New

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... the lack of generosity of some other parts of the plan, like financial aid"]Many students were baffled by the generosity of the iPad plan

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of ... of stressing out about it like i did last year. i'm happy doing things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful ... emotional breakdowns and two whole pints of Ben and Jerry's to finally come to ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to see what the other two are like. Best of all, I am finally free of 9ams ... .303/11.003: Methods of Policy Analysis. I need this class for my humanities

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020