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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  interested in playing us as well. Email quidditch-execs at mit dot edu to get ... that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... about getting used to moving on the broom and handling the ball with just

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  graduate student in physical chemistry. It's good to get different ... undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently undergrads are less fun ... People often seem to think that going to an elite school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones ... 't promise to get to them soon, but I'll try my best. For reference, I've done ... pretty common. I've been trying to encourage the freshmen to get 7+ hours

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  chose to do the work. We wake up in the morning and before we even get out ... stuff, they’d ditch you in a second.  Me: I know! Okay? I get it. You ... in my life, and it hurts even more to be valued in return. Anxiety

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else ... or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  reality of my existence. It’s too easy for me to get caught up in my studies ... and walking was very difficult. In an effort to get to our train station ... across Europe. It seemed like the perfect way to get into bike trekking

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN ... sighting in the Susquehanna River and people in Harrisburg went down to check ... wanting to face the usual crowd coming off the train in South Station, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  immediately sent to NYC to conduct some school visits. I was so nervous riding the subway for the first time, but getting to meet the students at the ... MIT receives; it’s not uncommon to have folks from Russia, India, China

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... 's responses than to construct a decent exam. It’s an exercise in multitasking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  drinking, I could soak the lower half of my face in milk to feel less of the ... much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to ... in a few myself, I went from being Anika she/her/hers, to Aniaih she

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... figure out what I need to do to get into grad school, or if I even want to go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... in high school... although objectively I suppose there was nowhere to ... -inflated. Undergrads here take grad classes to raise their GPAs, okay (my GPA in MIT grad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... times. i just want to get homework done!! and do nothing else!!! but ever ... more than a month to get through them since i'm so busy with academics

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... …I never told them but I like to pretend that they cared. But, in all

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... kick to the face. - Scotty in Star Trek often says "Ye cannae change the ... to cut him in half and count the rings. - That's not Chuck Norris

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage ... from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... advantage of the new minor in mangement, or even to people not affiliated at all with Sloan. MIT's resources, for the part, are open to anyone in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  lab sections, I would think to myself that I am too tired to be out in ... point in the future. in other random things, I went to SAYI, which I ... frequently next year! in terms of student performances, I went to see the MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  . Will I have to take multivariable again in MIT if I get accepted?" I'm a ... condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application ... also be beneficial for my research mentor to write me a recommendation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005