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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  It’s 7:59am. The natural lighting fills the room– every square inch ... – but none of that is important right now. It’s the first day of Junior ... camera pans around the dorm room, it’s 8am, and an alarm goes off. A hand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  district in the city, i’d read up on that area’s developmental history until ... course, any exploration into sf’s development must eventually touch on its ... 1960s, such as banning buildings more than four stories tall in most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  speed and then read four books about the 60s counterculture movement. woo ... sister's graduation ceremony. although she graduated last year, '20s and '21s got their own celebration, where they could receive "diplomas" in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  21W.757, Fiction Workshop STS.S20, East Campus History [9 units] 18 ... fiction. It’s kinda lame! But c’est la vie. I want to learn how to Make ... ; Right, good job, kiddo, you made a plan. Now let’s pick some classes for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  instructor note - it’s a snow day announcement. endorse an answer for the first ... lecturers mentions that they love web.lab because it’s one of the only large ... things with people i enjoy being around. it’s quite uncommon for a single

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  ! they are extremely helpful."]S^3[/annotation] that week, looking for ... , but the fact that I instinctively tell '25s that I am "doing less now ... .5 [annotation note="i.e. 12-unit"]standard[/annotation] classes. It’s also not a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS r ... ="attachment_53481" align="aligncenter" width="768"] me and Olivia S. '20 figuring out ... tombstone for MacCon, the deceased MacGregor Convenience store. The 2020s are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  school in the country’s capital. Mirroring Nigeria’s religious demographic ... easy friends with everyone. As one of the school’s unofficial nerds, my ... should think, “What if they’re...bad. Sure, it’s a slight chance, but what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  . BME is closer to MIT’s 2A-7 which is more of a device and prosthetics major, there is a lot of work in making things like MRI’s, CAT scans ... University. PI’s are the main decision makers for a lab and sit at highest

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  in September, as does GECD, MIT’s Global Education & Career ... an internship, it’s very important for me to have a sense of what ... hours are primarily for clarifying pset problems and wonder how it’s even

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  the mid-5s, with the great teachers getting in the 6s and the, well, worse teachers getting 4s and below. So, you want to only have great ... tough is MIT? If I score 800s in all my SAT IIs, will it be easy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... among others), enshrining some choice quotes. Hartley is in his late 70s ... . Why does MIT follow the rule that only U.S citizens or permanent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  projects. It’s a relief that I’m staying with someone I know, since this is ... was my first time. When I asked him how much he’s visited, he said, “Oh ... go into some guy’s apartment if I didn’t even know them? But, this was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  patches onto our clothes and watching Sex and the City, Grey’s Anatomy, or ... Twitch’s wellness fund to expense all of my gear. I learned how to ... the world, stopping back home in Boston, my UROP mentor’s wedding in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... take many GIR’s). I had two reasons for this. One, I got credit for ... chemistry and biology (the remaining two science GIR’s). I know I’ll have to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s ... thing to being Hogwarts — Harry Potter’s wizarding school — in real life ... Gonagalls — that’s you President Hockfield — and Dumbledores. There are secret

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  ’d forgotten so much, even if it was just a momentary lapse. Maybe my memory’s ... , receding into the distance, growing hazy. It’s not that I’m stuck in the past ... to say goodbye to MIT in the way I would’ve liked. I finished my master’s

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  study conducted by the University of California’s Standardized Testing ... Board by the 1940s, which evolved over time into the simpler set of tests ... to a student’s ability to do well at MIT. And when we review

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  under the current issue’s theme. Infinite aims to provide the space ... to help with someone’s idea for a spread were unable to offer much ... [annotation note="Editors in Chief"]EIC’s,[/annotation] a creative director, an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  went there on Gloria '26's and Janet '27's suggestion, because they think ... me ~$14). I went here on Jebby '25's suggestion. My order: Peach

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025