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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a “pass” on your transcript;  if not, there's no record you took it. The
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a ... , and I have no clue how many minutes it was, I put in three whole ... . Good enough that I ate it for two days. Does it look good? No, but who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... message cast down by Petey of the Blogs had been a sign-- a sign that it was ... proceeded to…well…post a blog? And, that's it. I think we all learned

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  . I walked out of my room one day to discover a huge mess. Well, it may ... that). But it had finally reached the point where it was worth ... about how crazy everyone was studying for finals? They're over! Let's talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you ... ideas to how it ties to my thesis. This really helps me better analyze the ... have a significant amount of time to dedicate to it.A key factor in these

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  . When the milk is about to boil (but before it does boil) turn off the ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors ... about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  to think about how it impacts both of them. I worry about our week ... lives. Caring about something new does not look like this: It looks like ... about it. On the other hand, here, I'm talking how much I care about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... . I didn't know how to do any of it. The next day in class we got them ... frustrated by how my obvious lack of experience was handled while in 8.01. It

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  it into sheet music for an a cappella group, ie writing a solo part and ... highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free ... the process of taking a song and trying to recover its original

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  semester has a certain feeling of frenzy (or at least for us it does) and ... Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... thought it would be, since our semesters are no longer clogged with GIRs

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  thought about how the ability works beneath the hood. I mean, it’s just ... time – how complicated can it get? It gets quite complicated indeed First ... degrees up→down→right→left. Where does it face after those rotations? It

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

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  President Now it's not every day that you have such an opportunity, but I ... stand in long lines in the Stata Center, and have lunch with students give ... also at the lunch. Now I hope to motivate how statistically significant

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  's ok to get a table for one. Make time for self-care. It goes a long way. The 14K Rose Gold Dress up for exams. It does wonders to your self ... You guessed it, I'm finally: And because there are literally so many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  find much to be objectionable - it wasn't *that* long ago that I was in ... could interview me over email for an article she's writing, on how ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  's interesting to think about how student community will change with it. In this post, I want to take a closer look at dorm structure, how it impacts ... —some based on seniority, others based on how long an individual had lived in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... staying warm on a budget is that it's all about layering. Not only does this ... or wool baselayers.  When it gets really cold I'll wear a long

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  because I don't want to sound like too much of a shill, but it also does Optical Character Recognition as it does this! how cool."]directly to a PDF ... "]for things to get worse,[/annotation] so we'll see how it goes. In the meantime

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I have when it comes to my ideal mate, I had a pretty hefty list of

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  only reason I even like Meredith Willson is because he wrote "It ... -locatable special promotion on the latter, both are around $15 each way, so it's really up to you which one to take. Personally, I think it's incredibly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006