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• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  packet, with a day to spare. Still, I felt my grasp on all the concepts ... . It’s a boost to my confidence, I suppose, but I mostly look back on my IAP as a lesson in what not to do. I overcommitted myself, took on too

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

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... and then call the post office for pickup. So to summarize, we're on schedule to mail today. The bad news: I woke up to a blizzard this morning

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. It satirizes ... 's The O'Reilly Factor. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  , like the crowning of a new king and such. By the way, my commentary on ... . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  working countless hours a week, week after week, on math psets and trying to ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead ... r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can’t-solve-a ... Latin, I’m adding a third language to my database this semester (and by ... very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis ... Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to ... about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v ... -sets expanded to fill the time I gave them: all the time I had. As a result, when

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time ... someone like me who is new to this business. When I think about it though ... to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by ... forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the subject, and discovered a fascinating story about MIT’s efforts to combat ... concerns. Dean Birgeneau listened, and established a formal committee to work

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  is helpful! It's Saturday morning, and I have a day trip to New ... The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... year. So far, I have: Moved into my new dorm. Maseeh! I live in a ... ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... Git, a version control system that helps to coordinate/collaborate your ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good question, which is why I went trekking to Professor Warren Seering (my new advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  This Monday, as many Mondays go, felt like a terrible start to my ... to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I ... nature’s own canvas, but it is a sad fact that you must accept. To do well

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago ... Boylston on foot (my bike was stolen - thanks a lot, whoever stole my bike a ... eighty semi-hours Ten thousand thirty-two hundred emails to read Ten

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... 're feeling right now, because i don't. all i have to go on are these vague ... enough to give me a small idea. it must feel worse to receive decisions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  just say no to everyone and try working on projects on my own for a year ... exploring a new field can cause their whole social circle to begin exploring ... on ai research. part of it is because i have a hard time committing to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  British landscape (no offense New Jersey). I was matched to a few schools in ... takes. It took a physical toll on me to teach from 8am-3pm every weekday ... of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023