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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  not by much. I passed all four of my classes, which is a massive victory ... ! That was such a positive conversation. I feel so much better! If only ... , dropping my A to a C. The sad part is that I still cared, even though it was

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready ... dreadfully long time. Here is a gif portraying the eternal and existential ... experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... variety of activities that students do. All it takes to make a group is ... stay. Boston is already my home. Happily, I woke up to a hack at the

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  are the same and it’s funny how easy it is to overlook a lifetime of ... Association. it is a student government body that deals with a lot of different ... . it will feel like a race, it is not. Throughout my first year at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  .01 (Physics) lecture isn’t really a lecture, since the class is taught in a TEAL ... failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... legitimately scared by how close the deadline was (usually a matter of hours), at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  * Obviously a college dorm room is not ideal to demonstrate interior design ... but I think she may be feel somewhat intiminated,she is a hs jr in a sci ... that I'm back from New Jersey, I can say it was a much-needed break to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  your own risk. And, believe me, this is gonna be a long one. Still, I ... , everybody in the audience is making a stabbing motion during this song; I ... love for Clay Aiken. I mean, how else would he hear you except during a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  on a huge dream, the office moves very quickly and the app is scheduled ... been pretty much what I imagined. Everyone on our team is driven, great ... sure everything runs on schedule has taught me a lot about how a business

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  with two coats of Parisian. Ruth is opting for a subdued combination of ... to break your heart again. Oh dear, now this is turning into a bad ... is the color of a green tea frappucino. Then we celebrated Gemma's un

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  little else, and perhaps this is why I jogged about a mile before realizing ... . Plus food after walking a lot is god's greatest gift to man. There was a ... a Hispanic enclave for several miles. I haven't seen so much Spanish

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is ... biologist, I would totally be a zookeeper. Questions 1. Helen asked, What is ... widely-used community spaces, it's much more common to have a TV in your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  And you, you need a beard" While The Beards insisted that there is "No ... . Writing is therapeutic. I feel much calmer now (thinking about waterfalls ... us decelerated. We all craned our necks to see why; a big black bear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  exhaustive list, but rather a personal one Clubs Art Club Art Club is a super ... to other local colleges! There is a blog section of our website where ... from a couple students is now a fully functional an operating club that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  turning 21 a week before graduation, and she is one of the most competent ... crying because it was such a poor fit, and immediately comMITted. How are ... others as well. Freshmen have a credit limit of 54 units, which is enough

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  is lots of fun with a variety of interesting threads (this is my ... (i.e. how many admitted students will accept our offer of admission) is ... song (Mikey was a Log). This option is clearly superior to #'s 1-3. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same ... never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  doing something wrong. There is so much going on, and I don't remember ... around the campus. The fact that you're a prefrosh is like an open door to ... Battle of the Bands is an annual CPW event hosted by ZBT where a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  mind: enter Emily ’22. Emily is a part of the not-so-secret team and she ... soon as they mentioned music, my next thought was Karthik. Karthik is a ... Collaborative. He actually did a live tutorial on how to remix The Weeknd

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  ."]IAP[/annotation] period and decided he wanted to make an automated nerf turret. Here is how that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... known as step motor or stepping motor, is a brushless DC electric motor

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022