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• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... something else instead. Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a ... are MIT admits, they usually frame this uncertainty as a problem, which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about ... email. It's Wednesday now. On my floor is a suitcase containing a suit and a sundress. In less than 48 hours, I will be in Houston, both for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Horizons team at NASA launched a space probe to the Kuiper Belt. Nine and ... made its closest approach to Pluto. It sent back a preliminary photo of ... Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  Track by 8:15am. I was at Johnson at 8, only to find a line stretching ... completely forgotten the physics line number (18? 25? 49? 61?) In a total panic ... check a sign for my line number (19) and all was well. We wore stickers

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  way exams and grades work. MIT runs under a continuous assessment school ... have quite a few problem sets/labs/papers that are continually assessing ... courses that do have graded coursework though. Further Java - Six once a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  these blogs. While I am not leaving the Admissions Office I too have a ... admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my ... reaction on that day. Now, how about a proper introduction?  My name is ... flame retardant plastics, and I was actually chosen as a finalist in a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... opportunities may be, they are also a bit scary because you are tossed into a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... 's team qualified with a decisive victory. It was less than a week later we ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... .” “IAP? I’ll take a design class and a PE class and work on my UROP. And I should probably blog.” IAP is a wonderful, wonderful time. While all my

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  connected in a moment. But first, let me explain...FIRST. FIRST (which stands ... , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence ... feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... not a good hair d- was that just last year? THAT WAS LAST YEAR?” And I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... second test wasn't much better (9/20) but was within a point of average ... a standard deviation below. I didn't actually score average on a test

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I ... writing instructor came up to us. "You guys, have you filed a patent for

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... consider giving us a piece of your salary? OK, so it's not really like that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  you haven't noticed, I have been drafting on a 12-day posting schedule ... points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education ... during IAP (like skiing!) and special PE classes like backpacking for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class ... Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  Hello from Georgia! We had a fantastic meeting last night in Atlanta ... , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment ... will be mailed next week, be patient). What does the NBM include? A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007