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  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to ... later in the semester, but the dinners need to be in by late October for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  city is so congested, living close to a train station will be one of the ... when I say that I’ve been to a place where so many people bike. I have ... It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still ... thing in the us, but it feels like a Real Thing now that i'm going to rent ... proof. anyway, i applied for a credit card and i'm expecting to get it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that make MIT feel like home to anyone. We also have terrific ... disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in ... really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  decided, in a last-minute change of plans, to make our event now centered ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  , and things look good, but we need a few more weeks to be sure. Due to ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for releasing RA decisions online this year. I had a meeting with our tech peeps

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  desperately to curl up in a hole and wait for time to just pass me by. When Camp ... it quits. Accompanied by two friends, I made my way back to Mc ... are absolutely phenomenal. A year ago, when asked to write up a brief

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... translation. I'm here to introduce to you Jeju Island, South Korea, as experienced by twenty MIT students. After the endless flights, we finally

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• 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 ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5 ... 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 / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  're a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... accepted to the MIT biology grad program. Just today, I was talking with a ... in the 70s, so we proceeded to have a lovely chat about MIT housing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT ... 've already mastered introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an ASE to ... begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the ... things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few ... . Disclaimer: All of these people are fictional and are being used by me to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I ... bit of a workaholic. But it was totally worth it. Why it rocks to go to ... scientist better half, is applying to grad schools this year. He had been a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... , and how to take big problems and deal with them. There are a lot of ... incoming freshmen to the new curriculum. And 6.001 doesn't really have a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive immersion that allows you to take the second level during the spring semester! These classes are limited-enrollment and available by special lottery only

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  . Now I must admit by the end of the evening, I did have a slight crick in ... I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005