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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  DND.  In one last attempt to get a hold of her, seeing her Find My ... line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... tendency to stick regardless, and how can you possibly expect anyone

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... everything else I'm already doing, I don't know how it's going to fit in. It ... school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... MIT weighed in, my TA and several essay assignments encouraged me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  tired after I get home from work and the gym to actually chop things up ... how to articularte it.  I've spent countless hours after work sitting ... international development.  It's amazing how things change. At this point in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  until 7pm. How to get there in order of lowest to highest carrying ... by stores designed to make you buy more than you came in to get. Make a ... entering. It’s so easy to get lost and go in circles and be picking up and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  face-to-face conversation, but via email. I get email from my dorm, from ... 't appear to be very fond of us.) #56 - I want this book. (How about it, Mom ... another day. Will I ever get around to writing it? Time will tell!

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  managed to do a lot of what I said in the letter. when you get this, i hope ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... .01[/annotation] [annotation note="you can take the Advanced Standing Exams to get

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes ... to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group ... multidisciplinary solutions." Terrascope is also different in that they allow you to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... , images, and video to record it. In total, all video elements must be less

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  as close as you'll get to a home-cooked meal. On a weekly basis, food ... really don't get to eat freshly fried, extra crunchy, warm on the ... Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... .112 and 8.01 problem sets this week, working in huge, huge study groups

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... in his book, The Mechanism of Religion: “We today are inclined to see ... seventeenth century, Science was considered to be in support of Christianity, so

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  school year and you're likely to have gym classes here, so why not get ... . There's also a huge indoor track field, but I couldn't get in because I ... filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it ... music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... my final draft) In spirit, not much has changed since I wrote that ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012