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• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  Because freshmen are beginning to trickle onto campus and moving into their temporary rooms, what better time to talk about housing? Even though ... being admitted to MIT, students are invited to CPW and get to explore all

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  -and-drop Windows tool. f) Want to put a period after your middle initial in the MIT ... accounts. Any obscure questions about how to use certain things? Here are ... -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  that but sometimes i need to remind her that failing just made me get up ... sweatpants. So many students are headed home :) I've decided to use this extra bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its ... weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  hopes and dreams? Do you have the initiative and courage to make them ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  failed five Harvard classes. And I know I’m only allowed to take two non ... , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  course, if I start failing everything, I'll have to drop a few ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring Break here? I know, I have failed you all. Please accept my sincerest ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... --never to be unpacked in Cambridge again. And finally, my beloved high school friend Shana stopped by to visit in Boston this week. Now, that's normally

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  called the China Development Initiative. Anne >> There's a lot to do ... opportunity to receive guidance and support from great role models, and I wanted to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one ... extended period of time, causing my 6 AM flight to leave an hour late, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  , though, enough was enough. I went to 24.900, most likely failed my quiz ... to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  Language or Literature, you don’t have to take an essay evaluation over the ... there’s no way to wiggle out of your eight HASS subjects.) This is all ... up AP credit hoping to pass into more interesting or pertinent courses

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  ) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen ... initiative.   Writing professor Junot Díaz on literature, immigration

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... your finger to a problem set and then fall asleep, sitting down, half an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  issue is that the gyroscope fails too often to be used alone in this ... -by-doing class open only to MIT students, in which participants design and build a ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008