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• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... diverse, as I rose up through honors-level and advanced placement courses, I ... Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... , earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I ... science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... eleven classes in one year, finished my MCATs, and embarked on the ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  .) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet ... exhibits I have seen anywhere and is easily my favorite LVAC exhibit that I've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... social life and (dare I say it on the MITblogs) party scene. If you're done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... the new friends I made, and end with some sage advice that I would give ... 've sure learned a lot of lessons and made a lot of friends, but I've made

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  interact with media is really important in the current state of affairs, and ... semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled ... kinds of weeks: hard weeks and slightly less hard weeks. during hard weeks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  . As has been explained a million times and will be a million more, MIT ... getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the ... Ratatouille and the tungsten cube Amazon review. because he is part of multiple communities and because it is funnier, the tungsten cube monologue has stuck

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... extraneous backstory and distracting pop culture references, I was trying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  some core classes out of the way, including single and multivariable calculus, physics (mechanics and E&M), chemistry, and biology. No ifs, ands, or buts, you will take these classes (or pass out of them). There

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student activities can I do?

  You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your own "thing" at MIT! Check out Campus & Student Activities to see what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  --Steam Cafe offers two of each per day, one vegetarian and one meat. They change ... chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  head, explored my weird mushy state of being, and penned those words for ... all the power. And years later when I found myself in the United States ... ’ll be a great time constraint on difficult problems, and an attendant

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  To set the mood: You and me - shallou   Looking back 2018 was ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... from enjoying and making each and every new interaction and experience

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... .   Here are what those numbers on the colored rectangles mean and why

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... . And getting paid any reasonable amount to do what you love is basically

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend shouted that his older brother had something called The Face Book, and that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  , nausea, and other TMI that I'll spare you the details of, but basically, I was sick when classes first started, got better, and now I've been sick since Monday. It's now next Monday. I'm getting better, though, and that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... Psets, tests, and the horror of finals season, will be much deserved and ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018