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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  . Yesterday I overcame yet another longtime fear and gave blood. I couldn't help ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was ... GIRs. This is usually a good thing. If you don't have so many GIRs to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  first term senior year. Incidentally, I don't think you should make a class plan before coming to MIT. You just don't know enough about which ... programs and a blank Excel spreadsheet, but I don't know if it will do you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... temporary room. Don't unpack. (A good strategy is to pack a suitcase with a ... the option to stay in your temp dorm if you want, although you shouldn't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  there's one thing I don't want to do after getting home late, it's study ... undergrad four years ago. I am also adding in some reasons that I didn't know ... manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  completely irrelevant. (Please pretend that they haven't already.) First off ... ? Uh...so this isn't really so much a fact as something I was delighted ... off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  . As Zach, Ruth, Matt and I were waiting for the T, Ruth told everyone ... officially missed the last T run of the night and decided to take a taxi back ... . But I'm sure you've all already heard that and won't actually accomplish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of ... " twin beds, a crucial factoid when buying sheets. Don't buy normal twin ... sleep on the top bunk. Unfortunately, the bunk bed designers weren't quite

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  couple of people grab lunch from Chipotle, we take the T to South Station ... entertainment on my laptop, but my battery was going to die and I realized I didn’t bring my charger with me. This didn’t turn out to be that bad, since

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  though that doesn't seem to already have been answered, though, I am ... don't recommend waiting until the last minute, though.) It is ... guarantee that we can consider your scores for EA; if you don't, I can'

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  new perspective. The first thing I discovered is that the T is just a ... was, oh, about 90 seconds. They literally ran to the T stop. Where were we going? I don't know. Inbound, I guess. I learned long ago not to try

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No Record, implying that it isn't reported on your transcript at all (for what ... pass the exams Show up and do the psets but don't study at all for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  it is). It’s not as if I didn’t want to go to Stanford initially, but ... is not something anyone is comparable to! Don't make yourself feel that ... another day."]It was awful.[/annotation] I normally don't have interview

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don’t ... )! And don’t even get me started on other things like displays, memory, and ... by covalent bonds, which don’t allow electrons to move around easily

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... really liked the I Did Something Bad, Look What You Made Me Do and Don’t ...   HELLO??? Favorite Songs Delicate, Don’t Blame Me, New Year’s Day

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  , like art or writing, if they haven’t already been ingrained as habit. it ... pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven’t committed to a program yet, not that I’m unsure about the Ph.D. I don’t know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... , as i have done, as i can, as i shouldn't, etc."]“as you should ... transcripts, while Ds and Fs aren't shown at all."]PNR[/annotation] mindset is

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  not know. I haven’t played games for years"]build as much ... , and I’d learned recently that bandsaws, unlike scroll saws, don’t cut ... via solder wire. Solder doesn’t take to every type of metal the same way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... week. As an adult, I still don't quite have that kind of time, and ... recommend me a book, I can literally put it [annotation note="If you don't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . Strangers offer to put you on their shoulders when you can’t see over the crowd. They push me out of mosh pits, and I wish they didn’t, but they ... deny them, they don’t actually assault you. I don’t know what it was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  wasn't the same house -- but the blue sky and the warm colors struck a ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t ... cringes, not the part of you that is cringe"]t-posing,[/annotation] the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022