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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this ... normally have. Basically, to get sophomore standing, you have to have 96 ... ), but I personally accepted it because I want to get 18.03 (Differential

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  statistics. It's always interesting to see how you fared (especially since this ... Weekend! (CPW) So I never got to come to CPW when I got in, but after going ... sure to get hotel reservations (MIT has discounts with Marriott - you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here ... Designers, this semester and I’ve been very grateful to have scheduled time in ... chance to say goodbye to in Cambridge when we left campus. Here’s a list of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... little better, and wasn't that always the goal in the first place? To make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4 ... /grill/restaurant in Boston that has half priced burgers on Saturday). There are getting

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit ... MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  from the design stage to two annual competitions in May and June, where ... time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox ... "]EECS[/annotation] department, I’ve noticed that it’s easy to get funneled into one specific kind

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  corresponding arrows reach the top of the screen; you get points based on how well ... gameplay i learned how to keep myself centered on the pads without looking at ... the machine), how to time my footsteps more precisely (by relying less

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  a non-stop grind to get everything finished in time for competition ... Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... scrambling them in the pan.  This results in a nice fluffy egg (props to Gordon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  ’t want to be sucked in to big and long-term lows. Whenever I cry or get ... ’s wrong?” “I’m not in a good mood,” she said. She didn’t need to say why ... emotions do in fact fluctuate with the state of the world, which I want to be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... 't live without my fridge in Next. You might be able to get a used one, I ... you're going to be living in Burton Conner, MacGregor, or anywhere else

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other ... obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to ... this evening, but just in case you didn't get a call from me specifically

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  inconvenience. By about 11:30pm, I finally get to the other hotel, check in, and ... 't believe how much has happened in just the last 3 days, from Detroit, to ... how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... to me and plays football, I'll be sure to check. =) In my entry about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  inflammations in your system. Thank goodness I asked her how to eat this, because ... that MISTI is one mens et manus answer to the "study broad" buzz word in ... , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  in baker. i take the elevator down to the dining hall to get meals, and then i take it back up and eat in my room. i walk to the z center to get tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020