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• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  participate in a discussion for me. But for STEM classes, there are often very ... ends. Tl;dr, I’m in ESG, because for once, just once, I actually won a ... at the same time, I felt that ESG would make for a less road bumpy

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

   violation of the Act. It also provides a suppression remedy for any evidence ... first obtaining a warrant. For our final presentations, we all met down in ... 's Embassy Row and finding a V for Victory[/caption] [caption id

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... to GRADUATE from a college. I know that this is hard for you, but you ... life, and needs. Just because her college is a good fit for her, does not

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  , if you manage to do rooming right (but we'll save that for a later ... above it. The shelf is a convenient place for the necessities: gel ... Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members ... (maybe a bit more, accounting for multiple bids to the same person and ... inflatable penguin is wearing a race for the cure shirt, a life-sized paper

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  for, what, a month and a half now? it's been two weeks since my last ... on a post about the class for three weeks now, and i'm really hoping to ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about ... Francisco. But John, who also has a passion for racing vintage cars, could see ... You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  enter a lottery during the summer for their HASS course preferences. There ... , which provides for a great environment to have an open discussion about ... 's effectively a week-long grace period for turning them in. If you hand in your

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... a cubic formula for finding the roots of a cubic polynomial in terms ... formula for a given polynomial depends on how complicated the symmetries of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of ... entail? A timer. For example, a wash cycle generally takes 36 minutes to ... was well past the Add Date. However, after frantically filing a Late Add

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for ... , and chill behind a desk for a couple of hours, you could be a desk ... As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  things I could do that Friday. Maybe I could get a little treat for myself ... … or so I had planned. Unfortunately, I had to finish a Problem Set for ... , hey—after breakfast with Sydney, I didn’t have anything else to do for a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a ... equipping one of the members with six microphones for a fictional “quest” to turn in a problem set. The student was recorded for twenty minutes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  dining halls for hours, laughing over a frothy cup of chocolate milk and a ... a 6.0001 exam Monday night, an 8-page essay for STS.010 (Neuroscience ... work, I dithered around for a couple of hours, hours I definitely did not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  . Small things add up here. Where you study can make a huge difference, for ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... and all that certainly helped. There are just a few things I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... instruction about assays to use to discern these facts for yourself. A large ... that are homozygous for a deletion in ced-9 are inviable. You suspect

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... televsion. The best present I got for my birthday was a mellophone. Well ... it--"I lost a bet," "for warmth," "to remind me of why I hate facial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  each frat sets up a table under the tent on Kresge that’s used for ... Rush shirts. Every year, for Kresge Kickoff, IFC designs a shirt that ... from the entrance and walking by each table, pausing for a moment if it

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from ... they seem like something I really want to sign up for.) It's a weird

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  enforcing a hard cutoff at the deadline for this year's early action; no need ... countries). I have a few updated notes for applicants in these countries. For ... contact you and perhaps do an interview at a later date. For all applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008