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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  left, I spent the entire night finishing a 6.006 pset. I used 1 slack day ... day of work. On top of that, there was also a 2-hour exec and a 1-hour ... , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that ... able to attend either. but a few weeks later, a few days before i ... day at e3 (spoiler alert: i achieved my goal). GAME START: [annotation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... during the day I run around and kill pigs and chop down trees and run away ... decisions (or Minecraft zombies), just dim the lights and chill out to this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  me correctly, #1 was the moon landing or something ridiculous like that ... . That doesn't mean I've never done poorly on a test, or never left five pages on the same test blank, or that I've never scored below fifty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  personality points, etc. 1. Create a list of everything you want to include in ... question, just to ensure that all of me, or at least nearly all of me would ... you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  clueless. So thank heavens for Professor Lois, who decided one day while ... D program. Master's degrees don't mean much in biology or other sciences ... pharmaceuticals), or government (NIH for me, NASA for my boyfriend). You could also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  . You know how they say "Do one thing that scares you every day"? My "thing" will be 1.00, every day of this semester. But I promised myself I ... graduate as so, but this semester I'm taking: 1.00 - Introduction to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... ) instead of my usual four or five. My other academic commitments are to work ... have room to breathe.  Or maybe, I’m finally carving out the space to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  minutes later than listed and end five minutes earlier than listed."]1:05 to ... non-lecture sessions where an undergraduate or graduate TA go over the ... that knowledge you learned."]recitation[/annotation] from 1:00 to 2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  Please don't be overly concerned about your class rank or GPA (grade point average) or even whether your school calculates them. With our ... "fits" with our culture than if they were No. 1 in their school. If your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  probability as a value between 0 and 1 assigned to events. When you flip a fair coin, the event of getting a head occurs with 50% probability, or 0 ... would go sorting 5, 9, 1 to yield 1, 5, 9. You would use a mental 2-number

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , whether that be completing all my given tasks for a day or using the most ... be days when things will simply not go as planned. Or days where things will feel overwhelming. Or days where it feels like things are just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  Date: Jul 6, 2024, 1:14 AM Subject: [annotation note='this is SUCH a ... burning sun will, some day, rise So what am I gonna be doin' for a while ... myself. Suspiciously chill these days, for the most part. Dancing in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  Portraits by sending out countless emails; or rushing to the office late at ... yet the limitations of the book's construction or its content. After ... year's book. There are a lot of fun things we added just for this year

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  IAP or summer that I did full-time work, I arrived at the office at 7 a.m. some days or stayed until 7 p.m., worried that showing up later or ... the lab—but you interact more directly with a graduate student or

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  , and bears get really really fat.  [carousel image1="80642" image2 ... second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... semester has midterms or even just tests of any kind. My single midterm came

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Innovation and Design, a class that all GEL1s take). This week was pretty long ... recruitment seasons like Fraternity rush or Sorority formal recruitment ... recruiting. To the people who are being recruited: Impressionable freshmen or

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  MIT. I spent eight days travelling as far north as Malibu and as far ... racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH ... (Who we call Educational Counselors or ECs for short), share more

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  health clinic. This saves mothers from having to walk hours or days to ... until later (i.e. never). Ready, go. 1. I'm being published. For realz ... into academia or research, so being published is just sort of generally

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  procrastinating on this. Feeling #1: Everyone seemed so comfortable with themselves ... combination of course 9 Brain and Cognitive Sciences or 15 Management or 14 Economics or something ??), so everyone’s strong STEM background intimidated

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018