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  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid ... for bed.   Thursday 9:45am. My alarm wakes me up, and I snooze ... agency for an ad campaign I might take part in. I take a nap, and wake up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  one activity, however, that we hope you will join us for: MIT Quest ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... Boston with Dartmouth and Yale Quest Scholars. When I came for my CPW, the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  , especially for an MIT student), settling onto the plan and watching the ground ... with camp gear and two more friends and set out for the great outdoors ... the grill and waited for what looked like a giant space-burger to cook

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  the third floor somewhere on MIT campus, frantically studying for my ... afternoon, when I hunkered down and started studying for my four finals this ... -n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  for the scholarships. Craighead will attend the Massachusetts Institute ... he "felt this was the place for me. I felt comfortable there ... 's leading scholarship program for African-American youth. "This year's group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day). After working for 3 hours I decided to study for my 18.03 test that I had today. I worked for a little bit but then got distracted because a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  I've drawn enough Lewis structures to satisfy me for awhile. When I ... baguettes. Usually when there's food at desk, it's free for the taking, but I ... minutes before I came back for good, and it wasn't there then, so I thought

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to ... more refined word choice, subtle humor, and poignant advice. For it was ... for a quick bite) and reassembled it here, only to discover that one of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too ... “First Year HASS Experience” (common humanities classes required for ... a study break for members of the class of 2009 to provide feedback

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... correct answers. That is not uncommon for MIT. Today in UROP Andy presented ... Institute for Basic Research, which is run out of a PO Box in Florida. The new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  # of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of ... brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at ... which I say: guys, I work for MIT! If a kid doesn't want to be taking a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  component of sphingomyelin, is part of the cellular lipid bilayer. For ... connectivity. 5. a) Draw Newman projects for the six energy maxima and minima for 2- methylhexane, sighting along the C2-C3 bond. b) Calculate the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  [annotation note="very helpful class planning website for MIT students that's updated for each semester"]Hydrant[/annotation] and[annotation note="academic planner for MIT students to plan out their degrees, test out paths for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m choosing classes for next semester ... for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... ="" align="alignnone" width="267"] for reference, a lemming[/caption] My

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track for a full recovery. Since then, I have been pitching in where I can

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  roundtrip for me, so I wandered around British streets solo. It got a bit ... noticed this after getting called out for never using my knife at dinner ... text on a scrap piece of paper while waiting for a massively delayed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... conceptually. This may be for a few reasons. One may be that [annotation note

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... on, it turned out that MIT was also in talks with Disney for a general ... able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends ... [annotation note="Lab Assistant"]LA[/annotation] for that class. I spent 10

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020