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• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... asked Professor Housman to talk a little about his career and the things ... all "oh, I've been fortunate to work on a few diseases and discover some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  friends to gnome game. My protege Joy is something of a prodigy, achieving ... online that go into the 10k region. Also, once my roommate managed to get a ... a dying run, and timing boosts to enter logs is an essential skill to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... Aphrodite and Ares descended to the people to end their war. I think it was a ... , not a sprint. I don't have to run the same pace as the guys in the front

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the ... Biden [annotation note="a reference to a tiktok"]is it bones day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... also a good time to tell them about why you're applying to each school ... these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... Intensive). A side note: you're actually required to take a CI class during ... exams. In a word, sophomore standing isn't very difficult to get, if that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of ... can be stated as follows: there is often a tendency to see technical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... draw of this city is to find different ways to spend a lot of money

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  already, but wanted to inquire a bit about the pre-law track. From what I ... wrote: Whether or not MIT prepares you to be a lawyer probably depends on ... which you're dealing. If it's what you want to do, MIT can give you a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... asked my friend in NYC to go into my room and drop off the passport at a ... countries in seven days. As such, there was a lot of coordination that had to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  -changing realization that they’re a terrible person, decides to change, and suddenly ... due at 11:59, and midterms looming. I can’t choose to wake up on a day ... feels like a time loop if you let it. Sure, it’s satisfying to finish your

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute ... once. It started with an email to my academic advisor, then a phone call ... something I didn’t know before: having a bad start to a semester doesn’t mean

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  interesting to me as a (then) prospective History double major. I came in ... undergrads to judge. We met so many alumns. My interviewee was a total badass ... classes are 12 units; however, this class had a comparable amount of work to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to ... about it soon. 9.00 Intro to Psychology. I don't show up to a single lecture. I don't do a single reading. I go to recitation and look at optical

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... again. There has to be a middle ground, though. I'm still looking for it. ... I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... to join them even though it seemed like a pretty bad idea. but i don ... room all the time, so it's easy to get things done as soon as a class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and ... providing more than 1,500 3D printers and kits as part of a drive to ensure ... Chevron, which is announcing a $10 million commitment to the Fab Foundation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... Walsh--a nuclear expert who's traveled to both Iran and North Korea (fun

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