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• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... upperclassman that helps run the seminar and is a resource if you ever have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I ... semester. In some ways, MIT is close. In other ways it feels distant, like a ... I carried home a table and ladder from over a mile away. That was a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  up into three independent branches, that I will argue provide a ... examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a ... cannon-ball approach of 18.100B, but there is a lot of context that you

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  together: i was in the lab learning how to use a platereader, run fluorescent ... 's a giant nail in my tire that i have to fix or my cells aren't growing ... of bohemian rhapsody. after that, i lost interest in vinyls. not

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  I even have a chance? How do I know if I should apply? The former of ... … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... it was in your parents’ garage)? Did you do stuff that was useful

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  weeks later, I’m in a simple knee brace, stumbling my way around. All is ... weeks since I’ve busted my knee. That means a few different things. One, I ... about four years old, my family and I got into a car accident in India. As

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was ... that many MIT students have a general idea of how that works...but are a ... . ***** Person 1: "That stuff is more polar than a bear," Person 2: "You realize

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and ... dinners in the fall. Also, this is an old draft. I can now attest that ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  probably a lot more stuff that Brain is repressing In summary, this time of ... My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... is inferior, that while on the outside they seem nice and p(r)eppy, but ... myself too I've got wonderful stories about Harvard that I'll be more than

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... 't quite reach. The only inconvenience is that here in Boston, like most

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  . Which means! That 4.111 is the first studio in a sequence of studios I ... happy that this class is not graded on a curve, which means what I give is ... .013 – Introductory Biology (a GIR class) I’m ALWAYS excited to take biology, but that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That ... hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  listening to the soundtrack as I type, it's just that good. A skate home ... understanding at MIT that if every light in the green building (both sides) is turned off, the world will end. There is always somebody in there doing

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  premonition I swear"]a future in these big lecture halls felt odd and foreign ... being in such a large atmosphere. Worries about how these classes could ... probably the fact that I came from a pretty large high school. We had several

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  spent in lecture. I will admit that this is a relatively low number ... a course 9. That is not, however, this world, so I will accept my ... have been Doing nonstop. I think it might be a personality thing. I tend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a ... availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... 's a pretty sweet deal - and, to be honest, I think that I would have to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  , Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... puzzles I wasn't able to show you. I hope you all had a good time, I know I ... : ************************************************************************************* Alien Species A little bird told us that the suspect was seen attending a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  more, but I will delve into that in a later post. As to why spend a year ... is really fun, and also teaches you a lot. For example, in Turkey, I ... noticeably more than in Boston, and is significantly warmer. And we had a mere

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... in the process of dropping a class (Jeremy thinks I should call it "The ... making the biggest decision of the semester, I needed a reminder of that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018