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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  've practiced yet, or when the interview was. I started to get little bunches in ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... Stud2 (the floor with the food court) to help fix my broken code. In the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... , cramming in the few details I wanted (and needed) to remember. And ... their worst this semester, I talked to a few trusted people in my life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  (because my classes started so late), haha, but I went to sleep earlier in ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... return to MIT. I'm living in Baker this summer, in a room with really poor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  analyze. Still, it was fantastic to finally talk to someone in person after weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... did the Ocean Engineering FPOP just to be in close proximity to the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  biggest problem with this option is probably cost, and flexibility: to get what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the ... ) that Shaw's gives a discount to MIT students: you get 5% off with your ID

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  accelerator called Bolt. They also get a chance to explore the city of Boston ... took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design ... participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short

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

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it ... Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a ... then it's not to be missed! Oooh, you can also get a lot of Starbucks and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  -dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then ... 's okay to go off the well-planned path (though not exactly in the way Jenny ... bloggers are like in real life... Feel free to hit me up with MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011