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• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  's home than your own. The point of this diatribe is that I would not try ... brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  the trek. I didn't know how hard it would be, and somehow both the ... excited. I haven't gone more than 20 miles in a day in... ah... I'm counting ... couches in inconspicuous locations. Mine was right next to an elevator, so I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  design process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  8 semesters; that way I would eventually be in "ICE-nine." Oh man, I ... DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  problem, I would know the answer because I had done that question several ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all ... (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... been no different, unfortunately. I posted the following in the '11

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  tends to meander in all directions I’m clueless on how to summarize it. I ... And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in ... ’t seen her in nearly nine months, so I was shaking with all the excitement

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... !” speech, because I’d spend forever and a half gushing about how cool and ... and trying something new. I would consider myself practiced at about

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ), but I should mention this option just in case. Most grads (I think) of ... seniors I know are in finance -- specifically, investment banking, sales and ... Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  ...it sounded so different from how it did on Youtube. I still managed to come in ... would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  outside, staring in unbroken awe at the air. I don’t know how long it took ... how certain I was that I would dive head-on into the waiting classes and ... --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of ... for a conference I’m presenting at in May. I had two other projects that ... dynamic language engineering class, and I would have been a stressed wreck

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  -sized stuffed panther doll in the middle. To this day, I have no idea what was up ... activity, too, and I'm really looking forward to how people respond to it ... the half hour, in room 32-144. I don’t want to give anything away

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought ... I did in middle school. I loved lego robotics, and my mom can testify that I would stay after school literally every single day to build and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  series of TableTop and I fell in love. Every week Wil Wheaton would gather ... construct an argument, with sources, about what would have happened. Here are a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... place, despite the heat. I really like how much nature is accessible there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... pictured: the full extent of how cool this was I named my drum "Todd" (we ... songs in the traditional language of Senegal, such as [translated] "I went

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... Conservation of Sleep, I would probably do my research there. A given glance ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015