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  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  than grad students, or something (I don't know why; I work half as much ... ). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... . This figure doesn't include recitations -- a recitation is a discussion

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  , it was. Moral of the story: whatever classes don't kill you will only ... MIT, but they admit that still doesn't settle their nerves. I totally ... bubble of context, and that you don't have to have a certain GPA or certain

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  starts -- they put up the fall 2005 schedule in late May -- so I don't ... interesting, and it fit in a really nice place in my schedule. (Don't ... professors are that demanding on the syllabus, it doesn't bode well for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  well as a box I don't care enough to unpack yet.   The ... was 109F -- 42.8C!) and because I whined that I wouldn't be able to sleep if he didn't put the AC in. I'm so good at what I do.  

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  applying to college/MIT: Don't lose yourself in the craziness of trying to do ... and you'll have a better chance of standing out. Don't get hung up on the details--we don't really care if your essay is 499 words long or 550

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn't ... . Since I hadn't taken any lab classes or worked in any labs, I wrote about ... really lucky I did, because I didn't get a job offer until two days before

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My ... always welcome, and wouldn't put you at a disadvantage. existential ... reporting midyear grades (particularly if they aren't getting those grades on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  first walked down the Infinite. I knew college changed you, but I didn't ... . 1. Live and breathe PNR. Don't stay up until 3 in the morning to finish that one pset. Don't skip meals to study longer. Don't miss out on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  seriously considering it as a career path. However, I don't know whether I ... see which suits you better. Personally, I don't think that engineering ... adversely affect your chance of getting in; don't worry about it. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  -edged sword. It means that I don't have anything but a morning recitation on ... class hasn't been too crazy but verrrry dense. Like most pure bio classes ... interested in thermo, but I also don't find it that hard, so I'm assuming this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  time when the Admissions office isn’t quite finished working with the ... have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don’t ... checking out, if I don’t say so myself. I will point out that the podcast

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Christmas music every morning on the drive to school, but I haven’t heard much ... field was COVERED IN GOOSE SH!T. Put your hands out, palms up. Pretend ... of goose sh!t in it. Which means that I had been lying in a LOT OF

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  sense. I don't feel as concerned about anything. I don't feel the pressure I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people ... first, I wasn't buying into it. I've always considered myself a very

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... .390 Introduction to Machine Learning I generally liked this class, but I didn't like ... or techniques don't get adequately proven, and there's some level of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  months, and 21 days"]minute.[/annotation] My blogger avatar hasn't changed ... true about me then and remain true now: I don't drink coffee or ... sciences & humanities, and I currently can't see myself going back to a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... because I didn't remember half the vocabulary for this exam; because I fell ... somehow don't have any better options than what I'm currently doing. I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don't ... choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the ... haven't seen in a while was visiting boston. since i had nothing scheduled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  very cool folks. Black t-shirts and chains, ripped jeans and leather ... advertising riding lessons. A few accident lawyers were distributing free t-shirts with their firms printed on the front. There were artisan stalls too: t

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... ="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images ... ="attachment_68540" align="aligncenter" width="225"] harvard isn't safe from me either[/caption]

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as ... , getting lunch at the cafe in Stata. I couldn't have imagined just how full

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021