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  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  exams this semester: 6.046 and 7.012.   [STEP 1] TRAIN FOR BATTLE ... .org/blogs/entry/finals-away-from-finals'>Sophomore spring</a> or <a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href='https ... actually started studying for 6.046 the day before the last day of classes. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  nerdy (like the kids in the Facebook group "Dorks Who Were On The Facebook ... day and tell little kids to stop running. I love it. I have an awesome ... the amusement park next door for free, get to stay outside all day and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of school EVER!" (Just kidding, but it does start each day off rather epic ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun ... year starts with 1,100 studious new freshmen who are ready to experience ... down the hall in hysterics increase. How does Jon react to the added

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  Some fun around Boston and Cambridge lately: 1. Free Jewel concert ... physics books, but as she dryly noted, it added up to less than a typical textbook. I bought a biography on Diana Vreeland (who may or may not resemble

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  faintest clue what "genomic archaeology" or "hyperspectral imaging" was, but ... their diaries to find out about their day-to-day lives. He talked about a ... , Oxford. They were carbon-dated to around 600 AD. A year later, "they found

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  internet or even snail mail, but by Hermes, the messenger god. It was a ... Instagram/Snapchat/Facebook etc. just for the week. You can congratulate them ... college apps. A lot of universities have January 1st deadlines, and that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  might course 2 (mech e), or 2-A, or 8 (physics), or 8-B, or 6-1 (ee), or ... popular at MIT or not? Yes? No? What do you think of when you think ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ... Patriots' Day in Boston, about my first time watching that most unifying of ... or root against. And then today's tragic events happened.  In a few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... into a lecture hall or classroom and serenade a lucky individual ... - offered these options: 1. Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder 2. Can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Ah, Reg Day. The day when *ALL* (except freshmen) MIT students meet with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  X) X 0 5 2 9 6 3 1 2 6 2 0 8 8 7 3 1 2 5 4 5 7 7 5 0 4 2 3 6 5 4 8 6 9 8 2 1 4 5 3 6 4 7 5 Discussion: This is just a map, can't do too ... Raven Symone's 1st Third in Greek A + Roman V Thirteenth in Mr Tumnus

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  sleep. Final XP: 2637XP Day 1: I wake up to a notification that I’ve lost ... planned to put in a maximum of 28 hours over 7 days. At this point my ... the day with a 7,000XP lead, hoping that I would be able to spend the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  well enough. And they're right. Snow day: Any day in which school is ... that day (e.g.: icy roads, low visibility, having to wade through several feet of snow just to reach the sidewalk.) The caveat is that any day that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied ... that all tend to release within several days of each other. At this point ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not ... . Pretend you couldn't tell.) Shank1 is such a scaffold protein. It was ... of things are known about Shank1, but lots of things aren't known, so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  the following times: Thursday: 8:30am-11am, 5pm-8pm, 9pm-10pm Friday: 7:45am-10am, 11am-1pm If you happen to see me, or if I happen to be ... some pictures from the past week over the next couple of days as sleep

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  a glycerol stock of cells the other day, but instead of adding 100 ... summer. I did the reverse commute every day from downtown DC to Rockville ... went to Ohio for five days. After I came back, I moved to my summer room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... the one purchased. Or they could. To paraphrase: "We'll arrive in time ... man who smelling like rotting fish, adding that extra epsilon of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  semester course condensed down into 12 days. This particular course was ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th - January 24th) from 10:30am to around 1-1:30pm, depending on what we were

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017