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  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... afternoon, when I hunkered down and started studying for my four finals this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and ... study, there are a ton of things inherently flawed with this quick-and ... improbability of randomly changing the correct base pair and hitting upon the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  tube in December, a huge envelope in March, and a bigger envelope in May ... of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the table my name and he produced . . . a folder. Yay. Here’s what I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... espresso, a million different types of cereal, and peanut butter and jelly-making supplies, which I am a HUGE fan of), a soccer field (and team!), a very good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  to yap has taken hold, and I shall oblige it, because orientation is ... residential communities and make their final choices about where to live. REX is fun, and REX is exciting, but REX can also be a bit of a stressful

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  ="attachment_56332" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] yes, it's super low effort, and I ... concrete goals for things I want to do, both for my job and for other things ... -study, reading, school work, exercise, and personal projects. There are some random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers ... , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out ... it became more like seven. I had prepared for this and brought some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Andi and Aiden this year, I was also fortunate to have two Next Haunt ... . If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  friends from the philippines died from suicide, and it’s been troubling me ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if ... with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- John wrote: "IB appeals to me because of its variety and it's coursework ... and challenge, as far as we are concerned. ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  almost four hours, and there’s almost three inches on the ground. This can ... Midnight Castle Step 1: Where and when? Ideally, somewhere with snow on the ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in ... Collier (!) and Yo-Yo Ma (!!) were coming to MIT (!!!) to tape the pilot episode of some video-podcast-like series, and as an MTA student, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... time between registration and now, I also added [annotation note="a class ... Seminar[/annotation] and [annotation note="a career development program for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... information session; then later, another student group hosts an event; and later ... and set aside for a specific purpose, a specific event. Filling my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011