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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  . While I didn’t enjoy the flavor, Colin drank his entire bowl in one gulp ... clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note="I ... like that in [annotation note="the biggest city in Kazakhstan, where I

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

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR ... new development. It really started back in October, when I attempted to ... favorite videos/movies ever. I do not kid you when I say the Cat in the Hat

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  the same. and the yearning to be in-place will forever stay. i will always be leaving.   once i was in the airport, once i was past ... , people started trickling in. i met my [annotation note="Graduate Resident

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  Yesterday, I wrote, "I'll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting ... cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the ... to take me in on very short notice. Eventually, I did make it back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  I spent too much time in lab and missed dining hall hours and was v ... rewatching Taare Zameen Par with friends The last night I spent on campus in ... and Bova in North End) Go on a bike ride through Boston (i recommend

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i ... description. i’ve written about this idea before in the context of meeting new

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... Systems How can the U. S. Help innovation in tech.? Let’s talk about it. 6 ... Hello, everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted. Here are two

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  schedules and then we can feel accomplished. I present to you, my weekly ... Manufacturing I. In this class everybody is issued a box of materials, taught some ... . Last year I was a student in the class, this year I'm filming it. Check

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  reading it was that i value relationships as a space in which you can ... of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... in my life. the sentiment i was trying to communicate was that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... learning how to pronounce German consonants from an mp3 file. Now I can ... term; I've always loved writing music and I can usually pick up theory

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  high school. wild... i can't speak to how other MIT students are surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms ... drop your own techniques in the comments :)   Reading oh man, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I recently realized that I am almost done with my major requirements (as in, I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who ... bit more aware of what I need to do to succeed here. I can only say that ... hand, I didn't want huge gaps in time between classes during the day. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  them as guest blogs! Don't worry too much about format - I can help you ... *gettingallthepiledupworkdoneafteranentireweekendofhavingtoomuchfun*cough* :P As usual, let any of us know if we can help you in any way to make ... QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT), I know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen ... is a freshman preorientation program (FPOP) at MIT, which I participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  tonight cutting hair at Random. I was her third customer this evening, and I think she did a fabulous job. She started learning in the fall on ... interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  . It's not like you can get by without working, I spent many sleepless ... with physics (which I accidentally got a B in, go figure). I think I ... getting C's (and by C's I mean P's) in all of my classes, and I feel that I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008