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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  filled with SO MUCH LIFE. I’ve turned in a total of 15 problem sets. I ... ’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute ... , day to day, I find myself in a constant cycle of never-ending work. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We ... pass/fail instead of with a letter grade, you can use the additional
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... lot of time inside my own head: I always want to know why I'm choosing

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... away in the Kavli Center for Astrophysics (Bldg 37) on Vassar Street. I ... again, and it rained on me in my tshirt as I crossed Mass Ave but that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  ability to take care of them. I want to be the person whose door they can ... any less of you for it.  And I think love must be in the little things ... sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Action is simply a reflection of this. Snively I mentioned in this entry ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... days... enjoy them! 390 --> 522 I've been noticing lots of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... the place. I found out how kind people can be, though - the strangers in ... in a fancy dress (it was the last day of sorority recruitment, so I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... for me both in terms of the way I was taught to be a first ... /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it ... one random dude in Moscow. (Of course, some things never change. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... when it can do good. I'm also not implying "high-achieving good ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them ... On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even ... social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the ... the other. Therefore, I apologize in advance for the scattered nature of ... Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  one of the chosen 5? Does anyone know where I can get a used Viper ... Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so ... of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  relatively [annotation note="so far, i can count all of my semester's bad days ... much faster than a lot of people are used to when they come in, and can ... something I can’t help but feel proud of as someone who struggled so intensely

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  matter whether it goes in the trash or into the mouth of somebody I know ... This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into neither of these categories, I put off of grading 5.112 problem sets (which ... sororities are directly in Boston, in Kenmore Square) - and so I bring you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  . On one level, I still enjoy being a member of hall and participating in ... me that I used the word "care" here, in the sense of "care about ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  could share in the joy!" Well, now you can share the excitement! [I ... , but are a few that I'm familiar with and can think of as I'm sitting ... The selection process continues here, and there's not much I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004