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  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  the gophers that pop out under you out of nowhere. The first semester ... of them crossed out by the grader :'( My first graded quiz/exam at ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really ... that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... not too long after a member of our family died of cancer. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ...  Draftback to extract a log of my editing history on my agenda. The log contains every

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... different age. As a result, he would, at the end of either program, emerge a different person. The question — the hard question — was which of those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... under the nose of the administration while quite possibly breaking dozens ... you're walking through campus and you see something a little out of the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  opened my application around mid-summer, which is the start of first ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . The Office of the First-Year maintains a list of these kinds of subjects ... should have (most of) the requirements memorized by the end of your first ... -ish lecture classes, you can show up to the first day of class even if you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  is one of four first-year learning communities at MIT. MAS explores the ... my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Danielle Geathers, the first Black woman president of our Undergraduate ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT ... thoughts about them. I also pulled some pictures and gifs of the most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  she is no longer the puppy of the house and hisses (like a cat) at Dog 4 ... video feed and go put one of them outside, one in the basement, one in a ... -check my camera, getting batter on the trackpad of my laptop. Every time I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  first of its kind in the US. (2) A student who participates in research ... cousin to the Great Dome; sits above Lobby 7 Lobby 10 - First floor of ... week. Just look for our table on the first floor of the student center

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  and the Internet. One of the things I was doing to fill the time was posting on the College Confidential forums. Some of you have probably ... 's still one of the featured discussions on the MIT board. I wrote this both

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... about it in your application. And for the rest of you poets, dancers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  't make this stuff up. It is against all the rules of absurdity (which I ... tuned me even more to the subtleties of what makes a good TA, though I would by no means put myself on the same standards of my brilliant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a road, but the start of a new journey. I know that those words can be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I ... II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  college kids. In the first month of college, send a hand-written letter to ... for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I'll begin focusing on the future class of 2011. I hope that you guys won't be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006