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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  , this one time freshman year... okay, I'm not telling that story. But ... and love you. (True story: The first time I got sick freshman year, I ... got flattened by psychotic Boston drivers a couple of times. But the T

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with ... -trained students. I've been to Urgent Care way too many times in my undergraduate ... -- they're worried about getting faculty positions at the same time they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  and outside my control, i had an overall pretty mid time. it wasn ... ="where i spent all my time"]midtown manhattan[/annotation] is the epitome of ... — after all, is this not the most instagrammable city of all time? i grabbed

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  fun all the time.  I really had to struggle to just pass my classes, and ... these classes. So all in all, even though it was terrible at times, I ... first time going and I'm terrified of dancing but it was so much fun and I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  some question that's already been answered twenty zillion times. And don ... traditional advisor is also available for one-on-one meetings any time during ... time -- but you do get 6 units of academic credit for them!), but not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... time. I mean, I'm not exactly the world's most creative person, so it ... wanted to know what I had been missing out on all this time, so I signed up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  part. Edge-finding! Woo! Next, we drilled a couple concentric holes for ... part so that our plastic lens cover would be flush with the top surface ... didn't photograph these parts). Once we finished these parts, we moved

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Awkward Moment A little anecdote.

  

  Now I have a lot more stories where this comes from... Tuesday, I was walking down the Infinite with my advisor where SAVE (Save A Vital Earth) was promoting an energy campaign titled "Do It In The Dark." As part of

  • by Bryan
  • April 14, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part. If you did not submit
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from all backgrounds. We know that while for some students getting into a
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here ... experiences when they visit MIT for the first time is that the Infinite corridor ... Infinite isn’t infinite … most of the time. Not when your mindnumbingly long

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  have to be, in part at least, a game of numbers, which the maximum ... Time psychology article reported on results of a survey of 147 people

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  Around this time last year, I was furiously wrapping two shipping ... destination address, which at the time was 229 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA ... into an Uber. It was my first time in an Uber, and the interior of this

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  distances and times for the trip. Eventually, Sunday hit, and it was time to ... against inevitable time loss on later splits. [carousel image1 ... result of the water break, I lose time on the road to Natick, which happens

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  genius; or if we have simply tweaked our definitions over time, via ... Chem notes this summer, 'cause it went so fast that there were times I ... sources -- that is, accounts written in the Ancient Greek and Roman times

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... and e-mailed one of my best friends (and long-time pset buddy) telling ... them, but ran out of time by a little over halfway through the semester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... first time! ^ More awesome than bizarre, although it's bizarre to think ... while I won't tell you exactly what time I went to sleep (my mom reads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It ... explain how I chose mine. How Anna Chose Her Major Once upon a time, in a ... I saw the Milky Way for the first time a couple of summers ago, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  finished, so I decided with the extra time that I would go visit my ... weird time, but the restaurant was still very scarce, with us being one of ... of it during my time here in D.C. In the visual onslaught of Trump

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  you into reading more about poetry! Saving Time about living life to ... ) In 'Time is a Mother,' poet Ocean Vuong reflects on life, and time

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024