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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  an incoming freshman because “I’d never get in!” and then proceeded to ... "]RAT[/annotation] in my room and I had to call Unit 12 to get rid of it and some lady ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high ... ’m going to actually teach you things now/get you closer to the “real world ... professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... weather. To get us started, let's go over some important terms: Nor ... you miss due to snow gets made up near the end of the year, though I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through face-to-face conversation, but via email. I get email from my dorm, from ... another day. Will I ever get around to writing it? Time will tell!

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... bring these atypical students together. Best of all, you get to share in ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  situation in the most gracious way. Does it still feel bad not to get an A ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  life in the city, and my friends. I should get on that. At least I got my fifth stack of homework in today on time. Yeah. I'm going to sleep ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... open up to you, wherever you end up. Best of luck to you all -- in ... While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  new perspective. Overall, I just want to enjoy it, take it all in. I want to be deliberate in the opportunities to which I say yes, or no, and ... evening. In between warmups and show numbers backstage, I tried my best to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  administration in some form or fashion. Most of these get sent to dorm mailing ... audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... or negatively), not something that needs to be worked out in real time

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  people seem to be panicking about getting all the required materials in for ... are patiently waiting, please check out the FAQs below in case I can get ... application. In that case, go to your MyMIT account -> “Online Application

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  to get as much experience as possible in the fields I was considering ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  also block off certain hours in your schedule during preregistration to ... good time to mention that if you get into running, it really, really sucks to stop, become almost sedentary, and then get back into it after a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  probably an appropriate time to address the issues that Cam brought up in his post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... with my calendar and plug everything in, to figure out where decisions

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  . Plus, I was so focused on actually getting in to college that I didn ... in a rush to get to the destination. It's not even that I've never ... places students in schools abroad to teach short courses

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... guys all rock in one way or another. Sorry to those of you who couldn

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our cameras and take as

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016