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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... out! Academics: 1) Work on psets with friends, both weaker or stronger ... , especially. I don't actually have a plan for this, haha, so I will just draft

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  tales of how both of these trips came together: 2023: New York, NY and ... Organizing Fellow and, later on, Data Analyst for my home state of Nevada. I ... hitting two major cities of the East Coast.  Day 1 (3/24, Friday): Drive to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  of it is that I failed. MIT Test #1: failed. Of all the possible classes: Math: [annotation note="Calculus 1 (5 on AP Calc AB/BC equivalent ... or just REALLY love math, like an obsessive amount, don't take this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  , at this rate we'll be #1 in about 6 hours ... your voting rate over 5 minutes: Start: 1,288,966 Finish: 1,344,741 = 11 ... " " -f 1,4,6 18.238.1.200 [21/Oct/2008:20:46:43 "POST 18.248.0.106 [21/Oct

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  , especially if you were just not accepted by MIT for undergraduate admissions or ... inconsequential (or not?) career decisions and feeling indecisive or stuck. You ... are making breakfast or something bigger, like making sure that everyone

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... phone. 1 minute to go. The air around me was completely still. Instead of ... check. 1 minute. Something instantly changed within my head. My thoughts

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I ... to have an MIT undergraduate experience. I want to address that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  to cross the road? or will I risk my life to cross now? I once spent ... you follow the road just a bit farther, you will reach Allston’s very ... major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  ’s going to catch you. Two. Most people left last Saturday or Sunday. It ... was running out of groceries, and I didn’t want to buy much more ... nice day. Or, yeah, these are tough times, huh? Or, thank you so much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  't think so. I think I will simply have to find a different path to reach my ... and had to stay up until 6 or 7am on many occasions to not only finish a ... week, I would end up sleeping 4 hours or less on at least 2 or 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  science or engineering. Then you get some who don't care so much about either and are primarily interested in business, or architecture, or political science, or whatever, but for purposes of this post let's assume

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  PM and stayed until 1 or 2 AM, and on weekends I entered at around 3 or ... away. The flee spell made me run until I reached another building or ... 't have the time or energy to write a huge post about this, but here's some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , he decided that Mac and Cheese wouldn't help him complete his p-sets or ... didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I ... year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  you've never read anything by Quammen or Preston, you must. I recommend ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP ... -eighty. I was 90% set on becoming a neurologist, because 1) I figured that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  you have before. [embed]http://youtu.be/JJMYZUh1PRQ[/embed] A week ago ... a complex or mysterious person. I also rarely feel misunderstood. It ... internship rejection emails. I talk about how much I love my friends, or how

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  creating freshmen-only dorms or upperclassmen-only dorms[1], students from ... , East Campus. (The dorm goes by EC for short, or East Campus Alumni ... hall. Nowadays, saying you live in Goodale or Hayden locates you along

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  perspective will be different, because, you know, I was one of the three ... uncertainty about whether or not to run Summer HSSP at all. We had Splash ... logistics of dealing with classrooms, or checking-in hundreds of students in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... life may take after coming to this curious place. 1. What is it like ... beliefs about what you will do with your life. It is also okay to not know

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  the quantum level, whether they'll kill you or not and WHY WHY WHY WHY ... chemistry, one or two each in inorganic, biological, and quantum chemistry ... to work on a double major, pursue other interests, or, if you're like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  feel free to message [email protected] or reach me through dada ... this. [carousel image1="101925" image2="101926" image3="101924" image4 ... any school in Boston. We had speakers come to talk about Shalom, or the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024