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  I have classes

  

  well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... 'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of 5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  . In my work with prospective college students, (as an admission officer ... essay is really an opportunity to focus on who you are and the ways in ... from an entirely paper-based process (featuring typed or hand

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  am I doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  to my friends: fyi: I maintain an email list for my friends. It's a ... going for, so i just thought i missed an idiom or something. tis always ... think it's especially concentrated in this first year of being an

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your ... purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in ... in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  again in a couple months! 3) The program for Avenue Q, a play that multiple friends were in! 4) The program for Cabaret Night! Only Danny got ... for Murder, another play that multiple freinds were in! We saw it with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  possible for the people around us as well. It is also an affirmation, in a ... , and then, and then— I hit the wall, in the middle of an IAP which was ... for the first time,[/annotation] in my sixth semester here at MIT, and

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

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... went for a walk. Freshman year I made a big deal about having a final on ... .09 in the afternoon, then 8.07 all night and in the morning. I answered my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it ... . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  great reasons. For example, one of my favorite students spent a year as an ... will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for ... 3-108 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 We will grant a deferral for almost any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  a more postive note, in a mad search for video stabilizing techniques ... First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  an awfully long while since I've graced upon your tiled floors, and I ... arrived! After so many hot summer nights in Colorado reminiscing on your ... pastry selection and chic decorations. It is easy to feel lost in the sea

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... mandatory eg. working through the material for classes i’m not in or ideating

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... bed (which in all honesty is harder than you might think). For a ... from home was not really an option. In response, my first semester here I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  block in Germany, and you will never pay more than three euros for one ... blunt then Americans. Whereas an American might tell you in a business ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  in the horizon darkness narrow lamps, strange food for a four ... I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  ) curve is Steer Roast 1990. That year, for a mere $1,000, they brought an ... : Nirvana Played MIT. Perhaps MIT's most (in)famous party is Steer Roast. Each spring for nearly half a century, the residents of MIT's Senior Haus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  in practical ways — I go to Harvard for class four days a week, and my ... big crack in the bottom of my drawer, waiting for inadvertent hands to ... -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at ... is depicted as an alien Stereo recording techniques Arranging for a ... Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... attack an innocent car with crowbars and sledgehammers. I was hit in the ... sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  Seminar An annual classic! Exactly what it sounds like. We got together in ... for upperclassmen, too. After about an hour and a trip through the ... . thanks for letting us keep your art guys   Head of House Brunch In a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017