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• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you ... and hours to complete them? Ay, there's the rub - if you don't do the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  everything up on free listening stations. It's very possible to spend an hour ... Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... switch to a spare, but they had to visit a repair shop before the four hour

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  Note: this one is dedicated to the expectant EA applicants. Hope you can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  's office hours as well. TAs are there for a reason, and that's to help you ... time, you really want to protect your time at MIT and learn the important ... taking multivariable calculus." It's important to step out of MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  subway stop to checkin. Ancient CPW Wisdom "Mini Guide to CPW" by Yuliya ... 's Guide to CPW" by Lydia K. '14  And truly Ancient: "What to Expect When ... . At least a few hours. Try to visit most of the dorms! Even if there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive ... I've stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to ... online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  an internship, it’s very important for me to have a sense of what ... —go to office hours and talk to professors! If you, like me, think office ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  services time is 508 hours. I feels so bad about it. Do I need to write a ... I wrote with my college counselor's signature to verify my financial ... office to verify that it has been processed. Be sure to mention "fee waiver

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random ... 'm doing this semester is here - it's a guide to nice places to work on ... 'll add it to the map! Coming soon: possibly the most comprehensive guide I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  -consuming. Haha, listen to the poor whiny freshman. That year I only worked 8 hours ... important than getting up when you fall down. You need resilience and stick-to ... Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  perhaps most importantly, how to fix old and dirty whiteboards. You know how ... ’m starting this off with the how-to guide. All that other content is down below the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it ... important to me than a clever nametag with a picture of Clay Aiken trapped ... Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay

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

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  spared me dozens of hours of staring at an oscilloscope trying to debug ... important skill to have as an engineer"]depended on whether the system ended ... field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get ... the hour i was not posting, i went out to the presecurity area to find ... out for another hour. if there is no good update, i'll probably have to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I usually never drink soda, but I didn’t want to steal from my hall fridge. So

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  important it was to talk to strangers, not just about what they do to conserve ... things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it ... past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  in the Burton Conner TV room, but after an hour of failing to get the ... ranged from a guided negotiation session to building a skyscrapper with ... For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The most important blog entry ever This is probably the most valuable entry ever written... not kidding. Bookmark it. Class of…

  

  thing I can do for you is to connect you with things that will give you a richer college experience. You'll figure out for yourself how you want to live the next four years, what you want to do, whether you want to care

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 6, 2007