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  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido ... Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  exam, you can still expect to get ~20% by blindly guessing, but on a MIT ... Service experiences? Once you make that clear to yourself, and have a ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  are hard, and Prof. Cohen uses a variety of methods to try to make ... Right before school started, I sent out a survey to all the dorms ... Class Year I forgot to add class year as an option on my form, and by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  read it to make it a good essay. At times, you risk losing your original ... applied to college 2 years ago (2 years! I'm old :( ), I wrote over a dozen ... college essay. Many feel that there always needs to be a "moral to the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  stake by trying to make ends meet, all the habits I currently do have, and ... swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... alive and like a human being part of society to try and pass this last

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  makes me want to stay. 8.02 could well be a good class. I don’t think I ... not originally intended as a blog; I just wanted to get my thoughts out ... happened to me after a test, ever. I talked with her on Thursday morning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  shaped by Nisha, which was never a bad thing, just frustrating. I ... I got in, I was accosted by a lurking suspicion that it was because of ... ...not that I give a damn about making comparisons between Nisha and I since we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  paraphrased/inspired by one of my favorite Radiolab episodes, Colors, in which a ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... heads off to bed, giving you a sympathetic "good night", until it's 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  a laid-back game that gives you a great chance to socialize while you play. Play a tournament for bragging rights, or make a fool of yourself ... can curry favor by having all the expansions for Race to the Galaxy. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... to “become sophomores”, allowing them to declare a major, be assigned a ... changes required a vote at an Institute Faculty meeting to change the MIT

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... from putting a firetruck on the Great Dome to subtly sabotaging the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
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  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the ... trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
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  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  times this semester I had to send awkward emails – like asking a professor about UROP opportunities, or asking my chemistry TA how to make up a quiz ... America, which is a HASS history class, and there were many papers to write

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  to take a math assessment. This essentially assess your skills and ... on 18.01 before getting to 18.02."]18.01a/18.02a[/annotation], and ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  those will continue to be gatekept by the student body :)) I tried to find them, I promise :)))) what makes a study spot attractive? I started by ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  , as a science major, I felt overshadowed by MIT's engineers. And I ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power ... to get a bladesmithing club together. They wanted to use a blacksmith

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023