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• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  do you make the professors love you? Well, my closest professor friend is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  really strongly about my S tier books so I'll say something about each of them. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro This is my favorite book I ... this novel is my highest recommendation. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  and not put my feet down. My friends worked at a pool, and I know that I ... out of the pool and my legs were literally shaking. Y’all, swimming is ... schedule.  My instructors were really chill. I had the Cross Country Coach

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  's Island in Maine, along with Nathan S. '25 and Jonathan H. '25, I took my ... a graduate dorm now, which is still a dorm, but I have my own bedroom ... available at MIT, particularly for upperclassmen. during my junior and senior

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  this weekend was a hectic one for my living group. [annotation note="dance til you drop, an annual party hosted by my floor, Burton 3rd ... , and then went back to my dorm for my floor's first CPW event, "Deep

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have ... each and every MIT library. Now I have collected my notes for your ... be slightly sad. (My friend Avery '22 and I went on a Bibliological

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  different angles, and my  Single Variable Calculus class is no exception. I ... always loved math is probably working in my favour as well! During lectures, my professor brings up some interesting facts about the early

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  work.” However, sleep is important. My friend told me “At MIT time is ... being is I convinced myself that I will spend my time that I would be in ... wrong, but I would like to say one of my regrets for my first semester

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  healthy foods and keep track of my calorie and vitamin and nutrient intake ... . They scare me, but I take them because I can hear my mother in my head going "take vitamins!" (Hi mom.) As a part of my healthy eating craze, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  in AP Calc BC, and was kind of let down when I got a 98 on my third ... how unique the UROP program was until I started talking to my friends at ... contact the lab.  For example, I got my current UROP (in Langer Lab at the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  versions.) Ominous weather is my favorite kind of weather.  =) My UROP is ... be going very well, but I might change my mind by the end of the day. Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  can tell these aren't my photos because of how awesome they look. Full ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... . In one notable example, I started to click with my CPW host, who hails

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on ... hundreds of people who had since became my classmates and my friends, and now ... (not for the first time) in my inbox requesting me to submit my old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a Revolutionary War recreation, was bound to be one of the more epic moments of my ... painted my weaponry black (leaving the barrel orange, of course, so as not

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... I am having some second thoughts. Concerning my peers. When I applied ... far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the nature of my comments comes not so much from a lack of enthusiasm as a lack ... recall my 7.06: Cell Biology final exam, where one of the problems involved

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My ... inconvenient truth about my internet access. Namely, there are only three ways I ... sustained flood damage at some point. Still, if there's one thing that my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... , write my name on those tests, walk out, and still graduate. I'm still ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  Activities Today I am inspired by Christina (my favorite off ... and fulfilled. Jessie does three, to my knowledge: student government ... . I never felt like it negatively affected my grades or studying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  In my last entry, Jonathan Foley asked an interesting set of ... ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006