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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  effort in, but for some of the units I couldn’t do well no matter how hard ... take to replace your grade in one of the three units, but I was so ... luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of ... fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this ... Building. There was a pretty plaque to go with the cannon. As you can see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14 ... cool, so i think i'll be alright. lots of calculus in both this class and ... notes and can confirm i am interested. CMS.307 - Critical Worldbuilding

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... -unit. I learned many things, consumed many coffees, and saw dawn too many ... thoughts so enjoy the whirlwind, mates. taking 72 units - downvote :( I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about 350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I ... listening to when I signed that card. 1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  exam study days. From my desk at Hayden Library, I watched the snow fall ... when I first got into MIT…when I complained about Boston’s cold winters, he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ='Alan: you can read about CJ’s experience writing in this absolutely ridiculous ... around ⊥IW. You can see the hunt website and puzzles here: perpendicular ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  'm confident things will work out for you. Let me know how I can help further ... Manchester United, whatever you like] Today I got back to reading domestic ... half done, so I'll answer my backlog of questions in several parts. Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  , and that means something - unfortunately, I can't go back in time and ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  how I could ever survive 48 units now, because it feels like these ... friends I can reach out to. And people probably think more highly of me in ... I'm taking three classes this semester. That's 36 units -- two

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San ... lock in my major—meaning I could change direction if I didn’t enjoy my ... . Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  "]RAT[/annotation] in my room and I had to call Unit 12 to get rid of it and some lady ... in freshman year. I had learned how much commitment was “too much,” so ... Classes (12 units) 6.200 [Circuits] - I LOVE this class. Adam Hartz

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the sport and can’t imagine my MIT years without it. I am sharing my story ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some ... /Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... typing it out in words if I calculated it in my head right now. Guess I won

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How do I contact a current student?

  website, you may follow the adventures of our student bloggers as they
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  writing, in shaping how we are capable of thinking - he later built upon in ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2 ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... them just to see what happens, but not in a dangerous way." Really, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that ... Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I ... I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP ... same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023