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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... classes. The first ten weeks or so straddled a slender line between

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D ... if you never took the class. This is a really good system, for several

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ★ a recounting of Premiere (Oops, it’s been like 1.5 months since) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program ... orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with Future ... middle school self had sent a letter to their senior year self, making some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  ) and we walked through a narrow corridor to get to Clam, from where we ... first week. She was a super duper cool international student from Ukraine ... 't really find a lot of recent content on Random (because Lydia was our main

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... staff will be observing Pi Day 2025 — which, NASA tells me, is also a

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  full jar of Nutella from the event, so it was a huge win. [carousel ... took a trip back to Simmons and pilfered a few balls from the ballpit ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  Bangladesh, my childhood best friend’s favorite hiding spot from over a decade ... . Not even his phone’s mobile navigation app can save him from his ... from students; [annotation note="Plus it has easy access to two

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... whatever the reason, everyone agrees it’s a nice change from the digital

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  Monologues, a yearly production run by campus group The F-Word. It's a series ... about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT ... laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  fact aggravated by basically everything, from stabilizing a squat bar on ... muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... their MIT years.  Before MIT, I had a lot of false starts with strength

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  explored traditional dishes from around the world; and continued through my sophomore year, during which I reproduced and modified recipes from my ... that are authentic reflections of myself. A lot has happened in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  , I've filtered out the ones that I've found the most helpful. Here's a list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that ... Take down notes from any of your devices and sync across all of them. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  application process, you may submit a supplemental recommendation from a peer ... perfection, just a good match, and that can come from people with near ... 'm from India and wanted to know that if a student has already joined a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  previous sentence. *From a literary as well as scientific standpoint, Landau ... a practical art, colloquially known as an Alternative Free Period ... .) Although I eschewed practical arts completely from the piddly grid of my high

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  this. If I read a letter from your milkman saying that you like ... . I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so here's a ... performances, or to write lyrics that use Boo as a pronoun.) Do not use words

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  moment I'm just going to wake up from a long dream and go back to that ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  back from competing and focus on learning and connecting as a group. That ... I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a ... that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020