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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  would be enough for me and Adam to have a nice night out on the town. I ... frustrating for me not to understand, and to keep doing very poorly on tests ... all my classes (no thanks to my lack of studying for finals -- I went

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  comments below), I'd like to ask you to really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example ... email address that you use for your MyMT account. Only I will be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  , and we're starting to see winter hats. I, for one, have ordered the ... wardrobes come new and exciting activities for MIT students to take part in ... dorm to get some more people and to get stuff for facial features. We

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they ... struggle to remember what it meant for math to not be proof-based). You ... for sure that I wouldn’t have been able to handle 18.701. There are

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... nearly enough sleep. I could go into the reasons for this – wanting to do ... myself for another year? So here I was, trying to get ready to learn again

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  to qualify for ISEF a few months later, which that year was in LA. I ... first time; for the first time— You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... -so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost like I hadn't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... to Cincinnati for the Miller Nichols Chapter Presidents Leadership

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer ... pushed for us to be right before finals. You can imagine that this can be a ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... of Supply’s goal for 2012? Kevin says they’d love to be on Comedy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... of statistics with enough depth for you to test out. Second, advanced ... sound dumb to some people for asking this, but who cares, right? And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... senior who taught me how to prepare a turkey and run a kitchen for ... over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  decide to reapply to MIT for freshman admission. As a matter of policy we ... applying to MIT for Early Action, don’t worry. We’ll extend your Early Action ... access to MyMIT), and they should be able to accommodate your request for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  to for a couple of months. Some of my favorite organized internet ... . Even if your level of Wikipedia-involvement is limited to searching for ... process to being on campus, when you are starstruck. Starstruck by the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  /11/11 was the most universally auspicious time for me to contact my ... -orientation programs you can choose as a prefrosh to get to campus early for activities ... ! It’s exactly time for me to go have some wild fun at Orientation week

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  !! Thanks everyone for such a fantastic week :) and thanks to my dear friend ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I print out past exams for my next three organic chemistry and genetics

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011