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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on MIT Admissions, I wrote about what I thought was the "secret" of college ... they don't match up to the scores of the people on College Confidential

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  for the week was half of a 14.121 pset that i'd gotten stuck on. if mit ... behemoth of a homework assignment for 6.867 and trying to catch up on my late ... 'm writing the first draft of this blog post on the tail end of an all

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  lounge on Tuesday from 8-10 pm for the season finale of veronica mars. Not ... 's room and then spreads a video of them around on the Internet. And at ... 's working on a "1/32 model of an amphibious regional turbo prop." It looks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students ... -Conner Tetris Battle is the creation of two Course 6 juniors, Russell Cohen '13 ... Andrew Carlson '12. In the comments on Engadget, Russell said, "We did this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cross-Cultural Conference

  

  to expect, but here are some of the topics they are planning on ... Cross-cultural Ally Development Roundtable discussions on topics of choice ... I'm going on a cross-cultural conference/retreat tomorrow. 2006 is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a “pass” on your transcript;  if not, there's no record you took it. The ... of A/B/C. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  is a definitive end, and a specific course of understanding. Here on ... course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hanoi, Vietnam with a group of 30

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  did not have more room. On behalf of the entire MIT Admissions staff ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... of the popular mantra on balance here: "Work hard, play hard".

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  of this bluntness is on cigarette packaging. Somehow, even though you ... 'm here in Germany, meeting up with tons of MIT interns while staying at sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  thousands of dollars that are flowing back and forth on paper between you and ... had a lot of papers out, and was frantically scribbling numbers on ... spending money on top of the money they were already paying for school. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  think it was pi beta phi, and standing on top of those low brick walls in ... trying to burst out of its shell. the outlines on things felt sharper, the ... i'm standing on a stage / of fear and self-doubt, which i think makes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  campus (which I did on day one of Spring Break College Trip Extravaganza ... was so hung up on this B that she dedicated one of her 250-word ... of not being totally embarrassing, that past me chose to focus on the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant ... commenting is acceptable behavior or not. I'm guilty of being one of those

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  about half of them) on a slow day, I find myself puzzling the many ... I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the ... So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's simply a tab on a lever that punches out a precut piece of aluminum. It ... 's another topic). One of my teammates was commenting on how frustrating it ...   Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my ... of Biomolecular Systems is listed as both a Biological Engineering (BE

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  hour elapses quickly. 6:07 PM I read Infinite Jest on the porch of my ... day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural ... -seasoned piece of avocado toast with one. 9:32 AM I start work. My UROP is data

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020