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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test, pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... Iwo Jima with it. "Oh, hi Phaeton!" called out my friend with a wave

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the ... for twelve consecutive hours on my 10.213 (Thermo) and 10.302 (Transport

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... than some variance in my Spotify playlists, experiencing the horrors of ... I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... me make so many life-long friends. Being able to hang out with my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues ... grandfather clock has swung the wrong way, and I can barely pick up my apple ... Tuesday night was fading, and though I knew logically in my head, that I had

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... creating my schedule pretty much the moment this year’s events leaked

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  . Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman ... arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  's up with my financial aid? You or someone in your family should call the ... hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don't get my financial aid package/appeal before May 1? MIT Admissions is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  Lin wrote: "I recently got my SAT I results back (760 maths 740 reading and 680! writing). I was wondering if it would help my application if I ... that my school is not very active in these areas. For example, I only

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... , I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no stranger to driving long distances back home. Immediately, however, my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... anyway. Sometimes even doing it well. It’s my addiction, every semester telling myself, ‘no way in hell this will work.’  I know all my little

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat ... class. there's still a ridiculous amount of snow. 10:05. my first class ... that i was bad at taking videos of myself with my phone. 10:55. 6.UAT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  the room as I stretch, roll my shoulders, and approach the squat rack ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy ... on my part. I happened to pod with someone who knew how to do squats

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... and I'm reprising my role this year for the class of 2025, BUT WITH ... along with me! Upgrade two here's my "I had no idea what I was doing

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  Walking alone 'cause the night is dead. Crossed my mind when I ... digital publication working on real, creative stuff, and since my micro ... 'm feeling alone, in spite of my general introversion. Every single one of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  with my friends was more challenging than I expected after getting sent ... the drop in communication pretty personally at first. I wondered why my ... with my friends about my worries. They assured me that nothing was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to ... writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and ... ) This is my first semester with no finals, so Dead Week marks the start of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  winter, rapidly decaying window of daylight, and my delayed sleep schedule, I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... how exactly I got my meals. I knew I was eating roughly lunch and dinner

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM ... the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019