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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... they get excited about. Not, “Oh yeah haha that’s pretty cool” excited ... release, [annotation note="thank you nisha very cool"]like this is not a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... MIT as happy, well-adjusted people. That's not to say that MIT is never ... that elite colleges do not have higher rates of suicide than others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  " (by the way, it's pset, not PSET. pset looks so much nicer. actually ... % assignments, 30% projects, and 10% participation? In most classes (not all, like ... (as in, here, lol, not the picture - the pic is from 18.02 =p) One

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  and find an appropriate balance between work and play without damaging ... stressing about grades, and as a result, freshmen often blow off work and run ... with him on the phone. All of this stuff was not great for my academic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  is not an activist campus in the sense of protests and picket signs and riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in ... is not taught in high schools (with the rare exceptions), so nearly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  worked all through spring break, including weekends -- i think from monday ... a more balanced relationship with work. i can't let the worms take ... their bio they had the line "i'm not a real doctor, but i am a real worm

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  wouldn’t work either. Luckily, the Breakerspace has the perfect tool for ... ) spectrometer: The FTIR spectrometer works by shining infrared light onto a ... (right) does not have. This dip is due to an oxygen-hydrogen bond

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  and how it works, I've found it difficult to figure out how to use that technique to get to an answer. It's been pretty stressful, not gonna lie. Yet, I really like what I'm learning! I'm not great at it, but it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  COVIDPass was working), and I hung my coat up. Then we walked right up to the ... note="to make up for not having freshman formal, the '24 class council ... not something I wanted to think about at the moment. "Are you psetting

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  'm sure 9.00 will be just as, if not more, fun. CMS.621 - Fans & Fan ... interviews, which I really need to work on. I guess I should be expanding upon ... exhausted. 6.006 took a lot out of me. I started working on pset0 for 6.006 (a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ."]September first.[/annotation] I’m kind of surprised that this has worked for me. I ... working on a retreat that served meat dishes all the time, and they smelled ... , ‘not this week,’ and saying so gets easier with every passing week

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The ... because, uh, why not? Shakshuka is great because it functions as both a ... tomato paste with a knife--did NOT go well, highly recommend not doing that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  This post is long overdue. These are not the circumstances I had ... while isolated at home, but I feel guilty not taking advantage of the ... , [annotation note="You might recognize some of her work from the admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  rejected from the last company we thought we still had a chance to work at ... and visually stunning, that’s not your own. And while we might have had ... eventually work on animated films — to give other people the feeling of hope

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  interest. I am not far into it, but I will be working on that one in ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... actually see the guy there in person speaking not to mention the slew of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  craziness with natural disasters this year (which impacted the testing), not ... :) But if not, don’t worry about “strategizing” around early and regular ... interviewer was last Friday*. This is NOT the deadline to have your interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  . None of our preliminary approaches worked, and we couldn’t translate the ... .” I’m still not sure whether he made that up or not. Math majors are ... , Googled the answer, and gone back to our work. But instead, the conversation

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send ... means pass. These do not weigh into your GPA. Spring semester was a ... opportunity to turn in late work by an assigned date. Upon completion of the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  over winter break at all. And by not doing anything, I mean I REALLY did not want to do anything except sleep, play video games, and occasionally ... schedule that isn’t working; reflect more often. The things I can do to

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more simply to not do an assignment, or not study for a test. One might do that ... rest of the album, think about the work that went into making it. Of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012