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• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting ... get too-focused inside bubble. People who come to MIT are usually ... trying so hard to do well in school, be productive in the summers and you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  (like to get into a school or to get that job offer or, in our case, to ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS ... ! We get to the Boston Opera House at around 12:15ish, almost 2 hours

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... movements to get a tiny Cessna to move. These controls… were amazingly ... be going about 145 knots to land in this plane". Lower the landing gear

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these ... -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk ... going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own ... are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... , hang on to the handlebars, and meet the blast of wind in your face head

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the ... because I wanted to get it over with and be like hardcore but by Thursday ... to be sitting in grade purgatory with two finals from last semester

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... at MIT happens more often than some people do laundry. Best to get it ... was, glaring me in the face, the luminescent fact that MIT wants you to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  . Content caters in large part to the demands of the audience, who can email ... seemed to get more and more popular. And then, one day, I stumbled upon ... to see it. Here's the new one: In September 2004, the MIT admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... evening against West Point, but first we had to get there. What we ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I ... work gets to be overwhelming at times, and it's important to know that we ... to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do ... face. It looked very steep. I started to get apprehensive. When we

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed over to the hack, which had been put on the "Dot" in front of the Green

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from ... wanted to do... with a little more science thrown in. I now get to study ... 's definitely not as hick as it gets, I've gotten stuck behind tractors driving to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... , which we do in 6.UAT to learn about things like recovery. What do you do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost ... for new freshmen guys to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  . To me, it radiated colors and inspiring energy of so many kinds, in so ... all up until I got to paint a mural and join Borderline’s exec board in ... are all physically apart, we still want to be together in spirit! I can

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... combinations of classes I could have chosen to take all at the same time, in ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016