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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  prefer revising the material on printed paper, where I can scribble all ... . I most definitely can't study in my room or anywhere close to my bed. I also can't focus if I'm studying with friends. I do message out in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... ’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly ... balance in my social life, since I’m meeting new people while having more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... /early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this ... , and I do enjoy it. So, now that I'm living in my own apartment this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  MITAdmissions. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  very interested in hiring people like you. When I found out about the ... about GEL as opposed to other leadership improvement programs I’ve done in ... ’re getting trained in and feedback on. At least for me, I have trouble

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  ’ve been trying to diversify my reading, in every sense of the word I can ... or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  also be in Walker, and of the four tests this is the one where I think I ... . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... , I can afford to make a few mistakes. Still, I’d rather not… so I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a ... /A-? Short Answer An Incomplete grade is an option in certain situations where

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan ... had a distinct code. Not only that, but you can look these codes up in a ... jaded enough that things in MIT are just weird by default. Alan: I just

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  ’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... , I’m also wearing Merino wool socks in this picture. Merino wool comes

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  professor a couple weeks in advance to be like, "hey dude, i don't think i can ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from ... books signed. Sadly, I found out about it too late and I was in class ... There are only a few authors whom I feel very strongly about, let

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  at MIT where I can genuinely say I’ve had a positive experience in it ... 'm leaving! So I can say whatever I want! Raaaraaaaa nothing matters rAaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  into the pace of one while the other is in my head. Where “I Know a Man ... couldn't make just in my head, and I find the poem unusually compelling ... that's you, man, or me. I make it as I can, I pick up, I go faster than

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  in the evening to finish up an assignment for a class I had that day ... talk in the largest ballroom room from the CEO of Microsoft AI where he ... hours of meeting some really amazing people in the AI development space, I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... the city is from nature. In Tucson, no matter where you live, you are at ... asphalt path. I’ve nearly run over rattlesnakes more times than I can count

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... of very recently, I'm an incoming Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL where I ... starting startups to revolutionize education. I got to fall deeply in love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in ... . It started with butterflies and dragonflies, but eventually I fell in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  with Prajna and Jyotsna and since I can't talk about that in moderation ... hard to choose in places where productivity is so highly valued. I am ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  vigorous vacations. In fact, I'm nominally on vacation right this minute, but ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker ... in the Bay Area, including Danny, Jess, and Rachel, who I got BBQ with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016