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• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  down and watch more Hermitcraft after this, so yeah. This is pretty much ... . My brain is filled with too much snot right now to remember what we ... before the semester starts is not a vibe. Wednesday wasn't the worst day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy ... , which is to say, not very. A whole slew of factors beyond my control

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  ). This is another technical piece, a dialogue describing how Kerberos works ... acted, which is a shame, really, since MTA's production breathed an ... the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... since I got back, I keep noticing just how much B1 feels like home. I ... to Paolo, actually, for the recipe. in a quirk of fate, Paolo is the B1

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... represent how small this room is. It's smaller than my AP Chem teacher. She ... of the dorm. The design is a pretty big downside to Burton

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  majors is even more so. And therein lay a major problem: working out when ... .022 psets. (Still not sure how I pulled that one off.)   Yes, that is ... Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves ... Adults by Elena Ferrante, which is a translated Italian novel. I'm not sure what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  about how much life there is left after college for learning, too. And ... responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  looked like a whole different person back then. given how much i used to ... was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we ... in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that ... you can't predict how a robot is going to look like by the end of the ... myself when my exam grades can't hit the class median no matter how much

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is ... how Kate got the flu a few days ago?” Wariness came, and this was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  MIT is paying for anyway), and I got a much better seat with much more ... convince myself of, not for any good reason. I spent a little too much time ... how short this is, the cab meter begins at - you guessed it - 710 yen

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... (which was a much more pleasant experience) I was ready for the next step

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 ... class to make my way there. Step 6. Learn things Here is a list of ... completely at the chalkboard For this particular course, every class is a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is ... waitlist admissions. All of this is a standard part of the admissions process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... it turns out, managing your time is a fairly easy process. Here are ... don't know how you wasted. Start by taking a weekly schedule and putting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is ... a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... don’t have a superbly high risk tolerance and the start-up world is so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  is only a few perilous notches above the set of people who spend ... popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... 't even trust your dentist anymore, you know that your life is pretty much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  parties made possible by Jay Sean. I’ve learned a couple things. Like how ... clearly not a wise decision. And how the many incredible events at MIT all ... More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... there is a sort of coordinate system for buildings on main campus, and you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006