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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... surprising, but I’m willing to bet that in that year off, you’ll learn more ... year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  , by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly ... close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I ... afloat in the comforting bubble of MIT, so it didn’t really matter. I had ... , but even as I’m tapping around and feeling both cards secure and in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... ’m sticking to. I would like to take this time to announce that the Chemical ... time. I honestly wish that I had kept track of how many hours I spent in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in ... . [annotation note="Fatima: I took Seminar in Topology last semester with Jonathan!"][/annotation] (let's call them) Z: I'm a recent MIT alum who majored in 18, and now in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  further until I was eventually in the deep end. When I jumped in, I remember ... forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that ... that we’re learning in class. Here, I took two midterms last week, and a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I ... behind in tasks that you would normally manage, like laundry and dishes ... embarrassed for other people to see your mess...but you would still let them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... liver tissue than in static 2D tissue culture plates. What I spent a lot ... research projects; it's my turn! So since sophomore year, I've been working

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am ... every other sentence in this paragraph.^_^) As I stated above, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  fact, if rotations were in 90-degree increments instead, this model would ... in true MIT fashion, I leave the proof as an exercise to the reader ... . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because ... unfair and inequitable education is in the United States. I cried because I

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... MIT grads in med school? Should I worry about that? And Lori said in ... were back in the day. As I hope you can tell from reading the blogs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  notes doc in my phone to write them down in case they came to me. (I would ... in this class. Had I not take 6.034, I honestly would have quit ... Aaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... ), then it's back to square one. In my year, I think one team had to restart

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... as a kid. After a while it became apparent that I was stronger in the classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  World, or what I imagine Boy Meets World would have been like if I had ... school students, I decided that this anecdote would pair well with an ... .12 showed me that I really could do organic chemistry, if I just believed in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in ... salad. True story: I once failed a calculus quiz in high school because I ... beer actually replaces the yeast in ordinary quick breads.) I am told

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . For now, I’m struggling to coordinate communications between people in ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years, and I, too, will likely retreat to the bubble in the fall. For now, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017