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  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but ... graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  . You don’t necessarily have to be getting straight As in all of your ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in ... in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... one's decision to work in finance are shrouded in the pretense of “it ... trades (i.e. don’t need to be in super early, don’t need to be on our toes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed ... few days in the end of August where prefrosh get to explore living ... room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  ="48932" /] Postcards and snail mail. It feels nice to get a postcard in the mail, so I ... to ride a bike for the first time in years. Maybe I can get some of ... years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... down I want to do big things, need to get better, am getting better Must ... to get worse Time to continue my book on tape Gas, break, gas, break

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  to get homework extensions or makeup exams (especially in big classes ... severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I ... "]four to six weeks[/annotation]. (Spoiler alert: it was not, in fact, general

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... , but I'm getting a team together to take the Mobile Autonomous Systems ... -frosh get their I3 (Interactive Introduction to the Institute) housing DVD and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... scrambling them in the pan.  This results in a nice fluffy egg (props to Gordon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is ... [annotation note="this corresponds to sometime in May or June — it’s not ... that a poet drowned in a river and people raced out in boats to find him

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... breaks. Besides, I get to do awesome stuff no one else gets to do, like ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  normally have. Basically, to get sophomore standing, you have to have 96 ... ), but I personally accepted it because I want to get 18.03 (Differential ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... . 1. Live and breathe PNR. Don't stay up until 3 in the morning to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts ... times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In ... I needed to allocate to things and, at first, was evaluating myself in

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  break!) and he hopes to get involved in a variety of public service and ... . Congrats to all four of you! I'll be in touch soon to get you up and running ... amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  efficient way to get into a lab. 6. In response to my entry on Adam's and my ... dressed (in my world, putting on track pants and a t-shirt != getting ... didn't spend that time in lab. But you're welcome to submit that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small ... ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my ... sitting at the table over there? Come on, get on it. Say hi to him." Me 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  forces me to get up in the mornings, but I think (with dedication) I can ... and you fall asleep in your chair, or at least get pretty sad and decide ... -related material on the side in order to “not lose interest in economics.” Personally

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  they wanted to have in their last week on campus. He talked about getting ... since getting kicked off, I’ve tried to turn it from the jumbled mess of ... are much longer than the others.) Of course, things continue to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021