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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... all the material from recitation or from the online video lectures on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough ... Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  break will all be online. We've been instructed to move out, packing as if ... I think I speak for every undergraduate when I say: holy fuck.  The ... will see again. There's barely any time for real goodbyes, for send

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  -so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost like I hadn ... .042 (Math for Computer Science) is a really interesting class. I guess the closest synonym for it is discrete math: topics include proofs, cardinality

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... symbols where your letter grades should go. For me, these were: O ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic ... screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  , arbitrarily graded online tutorial program. You get points for getting the ... . It was pretty ugly. Checkout the iCal for this past week. [Calculus ... , Physics Quiz, CLASSES!!!] For the moment, I have no profound thesis for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  officially graduate and should probably stop blogging so...be prepared for that ... of dignity. I do it all for you, dear readers. So, entry number 1 ... found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  (Doors open at 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium (Here's a link to the online CPW

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  collection of almost 400 videos in its online collection (you can also find it

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  a Sunday afternoon just being chronically online, and so i have ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  was working for the Game Lab? I don't know, but I'm excited to be ... my hall. Welp, see ya :P Also, here is a small game I made playing ... know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  utilized online resources, tracked down my teachers for evaluations (one had ... old. I'm a carefully sensitive romantic and a sucker for international ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  classes than is possible for me to take before Spring 2020. AH.) Plug: Here ... ’s time to share the wealth, so I’m here to lay out for you all the tips and ... have a language requirement to prepare you for a serious language

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once ... day, it's the main artery for foot traffic among academic buildings, but

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your burdens are lifted: IAP, and summer. That's why for this summer, I decided ... being responsible for doing Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  Conner's Porter Room, but since the dorm is closed for renovations, it took place in Walker Memorial. Origins (taken from my 2020 post about Burton ... canoe trips, Red Sox game outings etc. Most of these, unfortunately, have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... Beantown outings. So you can imagine how big a deal it was for us when the ... her final Jeopardy answer. At this point in the game, she'd been

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  Conditions: Play with this for a bit, until you get the idea. Then try to win ... Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay ... intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012