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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  current interests are and that there is little room for change. By not ... E, which added to my confusion about the field most likely. For MechE, I ... into it. For Course 6, it was a mixed bag, but one I didn’t want to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... you squeak by with an A- for a term in one class, but if you got, say, a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates ... get into MIT. Being deferred means you're going to get another fair ... anyone was deferred as opposed to admitted or denied. Having done this for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to ... MUCH TO POST ABOUT. The musical came and went, I registered for The Most ... out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical ... your time well it could be death by that form of Java too. It lives up to ... community. Good luck to those waiting for their college decisions!

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam wanted to buy Brain Age for his Nintendo DS. He won; we bought the game ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... 't really even bother to clear her throat for either of her two scenes, so she ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  terrible judgement. For example, I’d get so worried about my work that I ... smarter to sleep and get some efficiency back. I also got so inefficient ... --sometimes, it’s just getting through every week, every day, minute by minute. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal ... i was waiting for company B to get back to me"]didn't really think ... me to get all of these interviews for Company C, I did pretty well on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr ... , lives at pika, but he wasn't at dinner for me to get a picture of. Too bad ... . For example, over the weekend, I went to Random Hall for boffer combat

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice ... is important and what you would like for a reader to know. Student: Oh ... formula that will unlock the secret to getting admitted to the college of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  appointment with a doctor (which we had to pay for separately) in order to get ... for a project funded by NASA. He sent me to the library, which got me ... for a single student. Last August, my family elected to not put me on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to get in line to get in line again. but it wasn't all that long ago that ... every morning, and get ready to go out into the world, the small ritual of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  - senior VP at Google - wrote about Steve's devotion to design: One Sunday ... for Steve to call during the week upset about something, it was unusual for him to call me on Sunday and ask me to call his home. I wondered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , Dugan and I got to sign up for a new Barefoot Contessa mailing list, from ... you helpful time-saving tips on how to prepare everything for the party ... . Sometimes she has to go get some flowers or something from her friends, so she

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for ... 're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting ... that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... , but the FUN form is the best way to update us. The FUN form is due by ... applicants who are admitted. It's hard to get into MIT. Being deferred means

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  actually be time for a new mnemonic, sorry Screech. So here's a contest ... If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report ... Wah Bus ride away from Boston, we decided to head down for the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007