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  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  in my first Trimester transcript along with the rest of them with my ... , my date of birth, and the words 'supplemental materials.' " Fabrice ... of the items in MyMIT means that someone has alredy read that part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x ... students on the subjects of leadership and service through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label ... lifestyle doesn’t take advantage of the perks of living in EC—I don’t spend a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  first at Head of the Charles and I want one more shot at the national ... , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student ... to learn that it also existed in the US. None of the MIT dining halls ... atrocity of the American version for about a month. That all changed one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social ... mob at the last assembly of every year, so without warning, music would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was ... bought my first umbrella and poncho, in the event that rain, sleet, snow ... rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ?" No, that's the first time I've heard that. A few I have heard before ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... will differ. Don't lose hope! bocajrs wrote, "What is the first thing an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... check if Lupe was in his office. I went to the fourth floor of building 14

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and having a dozen of my friends hype me up from the front rows made me perform

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the ... thing that dawned upon me was the concept of "average." Being average is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

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

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  knowledge is incredibly meaningful, too. On one of the first problem sets I ... it down. And while at the end of my first-year, I still wasn’t fully ... declare your major until the end of your first year. So it’s okay to not be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  been released into the wilds of the internet...) 3. First Years are ... Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston ... , but it wasn't quite up to the job when clamping to the underseat of the wheelchair. after extensive testing, a little 8.01 and the help of one of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this ... best and worst parts of the dorm.") Also bonus: word cloud compiled from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... quite honestly be the reason I got through first semester), and would

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009