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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 / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well ... how much I fucked up in the first half of the semester, and one month of ... touched by the world and everything in it. It's absolutely shocking to be

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• 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 / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  , no matter how confusing things get, i know we'll always be in each ... eaten or lost to the tides of time. one item in particular stuck with me ... . i skimmed through many iterations of "a pleasure to have in class" and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience ... how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... Mark Wahlberg anyway, so there. I still get to talk about the mystery

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  story of how I ended up in 6-2. 6-9 I entered MIT last fall knowing I ... several stories about people planning to major in one field, only to declare ... in course 3. Before coming to MIT, I’d never particularly enjoyed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  happily give A's). But it's a lot easier for me to get good grades in ... workaholic has to get up at 6 AM to be in lab by 7 tomorrow morning! ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  (^how to make studying for finals in December cozy) I have had ADHD since ... eat whenever and how often you get hungry--frequently, but in smaller ... trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an opportunity to preview the material, get study habits down and start college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... form characters and worlds and stories in my head that have yet to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  also block off certain hours in your schedule during preregistration to get placed into the recitation sections you want! No matter how you ... good time to mention that if you get into running, it really, really

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• 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 / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year ... to rizz' presentations run with multiple co-hosts and presented in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  answered, but how do we send in our replies to get it in by May 1? Can we fax ... we prefer to get it in the mail since it is easier to read. Sylvia ... for the MIT Class of 2009. Also, we're happy to get you in contact with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at ... ’m hoping to see some other friends in the Midwest.  How it’s going so far ... confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  decorate the living room and what kitchen utensils to buy or get rid of. In ... team, a little overwhelmed, nagging each other in the chat to get their ... semester goes on; this post is my attempt to get them all organized and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... campus to give a lecture next week, and I'm trying to get him to be in the ... that, in February or March my sophomore year, we applied to the Mc

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the ... able to accommodate your interview. Here are my suggestions on how to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  . Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... 't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... to forget. It feels all the more easy in places like MIT, where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021