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  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  with. With many changes on how to study, an extreme amount of luck ... , not recitations and office hours, which would add a crapton of hours to ... 'm not fond of, it is pretty difficult for anything to come out. Luckily

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  which I ended up pursuing. There is a new version and an old version of ... , talking to your advisor or upperclassmen in your major is incredibly helpful ... truly absurd amount of time figuring out how to graduate on time after

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  really is better to get a good night's sleep before a test than to stay up ... kindergarteners! 5. Food made from scratch (or close to it) tastes so much better ... earning it is time-consuming. 16. On less than about four hours of sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  have is a mouthful of dust that I am trying to breathe, breathe out. ... prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends ... pretty much one of the most popular guys on campus. (Not that we don't love ... 're admitted, as well. His office is almost always open to us (assuming he

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  of Biomolecular Systems is listed as both a Biological Engineering (BE ... to be my advisor.) The first half of the class meets with a Chemistry ... scientist to take a sample of a substance and figure out the structure of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  . After that, I was working on my 2.001 pset, which thankfully didn’t cover ... while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good ... 't seen her blog since I got hooked to the MIT site - four months ago. Is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it ... .012, which is a 15-unit two-part class consisting of a structure of materials ... on hall who get injured and have better judgement of when people need

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  campus for their orientation, of which one major component is Residential Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  something else of interest to your interview. This is not a requirement or an ... point of these meetings is for us to learn about the things that interest ... I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  enough (I planned it), this happens to be the first day of classes on ... I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most ... in half before putting it on your lap; when drinking a glass of wine

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... they think that one of the essays which i typed was written by her or ... there is some problem with the mail server" Something on the order of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  's interesting! The process of getting to an answer is grueling, but figuring out ... amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  . The droning on of teachers talking [annotation note="yes this is ... friend on the way to classes, and the perfect amount of time to let the ... the sidewalk, which was more than enough to tempt the four of us to take

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  to. The cherry on top of this weird, informally-dressed sundae is that ... wasn't planning on wearing a tie. Is he secretly trying to tell me to ... formality is a cornerstone of Japanese culture, but this doesn't seem to apply

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  excitement of novel college life subsided. A common suggestion is to make ~1 ... you’ve never sang.” Trust me on that one. The adult world of MIT is ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  of my time is spent learning, and coding in, Perl, which has been, well ... to start thinking about Summer 20, which is hard to believe. I hope ... impending school year; the end of August is coming up soon (how is this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  whatever else you're working on. I don't know if GPA is that strong of a ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better ... look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015