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• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... 're having fun =p) Following the "tradition," I've decided to spend this IAP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  exceptionally relevant article by Turkle in Wired Magazine, and I encourage you to ... assignment asks us to examine ethical questions raised by, and in the context ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  admissions contact to another college by May 1st, there doesn't seem to be much ... colleges. If we sign the admissions contact to another college by May 1st ... enough to try to get there. " Minimum score on TOEFL is 233/577/90 (CBT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  . You’ve been lied to by the [annotation note="A shocking amount of the ... improvisation and getting our singing tone to match a sailors, and learned a ton ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  myself and my circle. Relatedly, I want to get better at talking to those I ... to find a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) where I get ... morning (so I'm forced to get out of bed early) has helped, but I still have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  been busy e-mailing MIT sophomores to get an insider's take how to adapt ... -around excellent student. "It took a lot of extra work to get to this point ... encourage students to continue their education by teaching before she focuses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... without getting flustered, coming to grips with MIT's nerdvanic mutation of the english language, and generally trying to get over the shock that I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  packing my bags, begrudgingly all-nightered to get all my items stored away ... and didn’t find written words to be the best medium to get them out, so ... “feelzbox,” which basically means “write whatever you want to get your

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by ... me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  going to get to every question today. Amy wrote, "I saw people carrying boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this ... variety of meal options, and especially by the fact that it's possible to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... to do research, focus on weather and forecasting, and get a PhD. Now ... needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... physics! It is by far the hardest subject for me to grasp conceptually. I ... improved immensely. I was able to  get my checkoff, a live session where we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , something you learn best by doing: indeed, to be civically responsible is to ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  for the summer. I have no idea what to expect, but have been told by ... way. If all goes well (i.e. I don't get kidnapped by Kashmiri bandits ... , plus I get to shoot a real gun and go bouldering. As for whether I do

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  , meaning that if a BNSF railway train needs to get by, that train will get ... ways a video, and you don't get to see still images all too often. Unless ... do that style of blog again, except I decided to torture myself by

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... those are terrible metrics by which to measure an applicant or an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  .C. tried to encourage us to yell “American Cancer Society” by saying: “The ... So much has happened since my last entry, it seems impossible to catch up. First off, our hearts go out to everyone at Virginia Tech. While

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of ... didn't know where I was and only had 12 minutes to get to a bus I didn ... more infuriating than that, only took me up the block. To get an idea of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  city's limit by designing the tower to rest on several stilts. The images ... Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 teams competed to see who could climb up the 18-story Green Building the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me ... boring part) and in terms of making me happy to be alive and able to get ... with an adorable bunny rabbit. Adam's going to stay at MIT to get his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006