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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  , you have to put the work in. It's hard, yes... You have to just get up ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  were told to write a 12 page paper on a topic covered earlier in class ... at how the role of the onlooker has changed over time in different ... a topic covered earlier in class in a documentary style. We decided to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  disabilities services to talk about how I can get around and get caught up in my ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in ... . MIT students work to improve their communities in different ways, from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... 'm making it out to be, but it had a nice ring to it.) You'll have to get ... people said to me, but having fun anyway. I'll talk about this more in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  from my floor showed up to parties in one screaming orange horde and ... integrate the freshmen girls onto the floor is getting dressed up and going to ... dance floors and had to wait outside in the cold more than once, but they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ... : it's actually possible to get full credit on something at MIT. Even if

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective ... basic signals analysis, how to build filters, and analyzing things in the ... trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

    I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... summer, a slow period in countries where people get sizable vacations and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  meant to him and how much the people in there did but simultaneously ... personality was interesting and the people were interesting. I chose to live in ... specific space. To be with this specific guy in this specific frat in a house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the ... want to skillet so I can get some searing action on. In a beautiful bit ... sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70 ... class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in ... I went to high school with who happen to be in different colleges

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  've decided to go there, shove resumes in people's faces, and generally just do ... consulting to real estate to firms. Now I'm laying in bed sleepy and somewhat unmotivated. Career Fair lasts for three more hours -- all I'd have to go is get

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not ... . We're trying to understand science, tech, design in the context of the ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  particularly hard pset, clear my to-do list for the first time in months, get ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... make from this post to relief in Ukraine. If you'd like to join me, the

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  with changing how you walk in response to an injury is that you can forget how to walk - the first time i injured my right foot, i took ... this for a few days i realized i didn’t really remember how to take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  few of my friends in DUSP, and their stories about getting here ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020