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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  "self image", and notice that only ~31% of students think they're in the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  for 5.60 (thermo). There are about ten students in my section, and our ... .260 Professor James head-on because I'm busy scrutinizing the 5.60 pset ... ... I am tired and my muscles are sore. 12:15-1:00 -- Finish up 5.60 pset

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... absolutely worth the time. It took me until 5:37 AM to finish 18.02, much

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  who have 5.0/5.0 GPAs and have gotten into top schools. I also know

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  Content warning: depression, emotional abuse, suicide. In the late 1800s Galton described aphantasia, the inability to create mental images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  video, making sure all of the images are greyscale (sad) and a certain PPI

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin: Samuel Maurer's Day Off Good story, right? 5 months after this entry was written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as Sam - Conner

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ? Because on April 5, 1936, something profoundly strange was being hauled up

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  boathouse to grab a sailboat (approximately a 5 minute walk in what felt like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  trying. this will take care of the "work" part. 5) you can always spare an

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  . Take a class in at least 10 different departments - 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 ... summer in Boston - I never spent a whole summer, but 5 weeks during my ... leaders - yeah, nice try, guys. MIT "SCORE!" yellow = +1 point, green = +0.5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  airplane, it was almost exactly three months ago. I didn't know that 5 meant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  a break from my 5.111 problem set. I had dinner a few hours ago with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I took the class twice and dropped it twice. It wasn't just because it had ... . Basically, 5.60 was a hedged bet, and as I hedged, time passed, others grew

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  having fun. 5. If you are coming with your parents, make sure you do the ... 5. K: A taste of life at MIT :P N: And they cover some really cool

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  tough retrosynthetic analyses. Two weeks into my strictly-course-5 ... simple path from A to B, from course 5 to course 9, but I don't think I can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton-Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into floors - from Burton 1 to Burton 5, and from Conner 2 to Conner 5 (Conner 1

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  piece! It's a flower vase.[/caption] Location: Building 50 4.19 - 5 ... head out at 5 because we are hosed, me with final projects and my friend with studying for finals. Location: East Campus 5.05 - 5.40 pm: That

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  spend 5ish years of my life trying to answer them. Kevin Esvelt joined ... ’s been 5 years since I graduated from undergrad, putting me on the older ... relatively higher at a place like this. 5. Tips on the application components

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018