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  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  of thumb, if you can't talk about something you worked on during high ... forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  time, was running on a diet of 99 cent chili cheese french fry burritos ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of ... workshops on how to use every inch of the college application to communicate ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  that much of your schedule will revolve around free food. Chess club not ... Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting involved. (I kid you not, a friend of mine actually kept a calendar of free

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  jumble of thoughts. It feels like a stereo is playing; on one channel, I ... their identity.  There was conversation on how a lot of South Asian ... near the cluster of other people dancing. We keep planning on leaving but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  every sister date I went on and it was really easy to talk to all of them ... it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  time on it? No! They’re asking us to do all of these things and we don ... ’s on vacation, so you’re kind of just floating.  You’re working for the ... first place. Are you still on board? Anxiety: I don’t have much of a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Musical Theatre Guild was putting on "Urinetown", which I had never heard of ... At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons ... – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed received all of this shiny new stuff in various classes today! ... okay, it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  blogger committee - composed of communications staff and some senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications. We laughed. We cried. We got ... the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I have to do between now and the end of the semester. Lately, this last

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our ... Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek ... group of girls clustered together, gossiping happily, oblivious to our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  , and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the talented people who applied. If Blogger selection was any indication of what ... year. That's just as well since Chris Peterson has a hatred of LOLcats

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things ... students here absolutely LOVE music. While 75% of students participated in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus next year.) One of the few times when every affiliated student comes ... May 4. It was organized by the governing bodies of the fraternities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because ... commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  much of this static electricity buildup nonsense that's been driving me ... sleet. And then it started to rain. And then, because the snow on the ... may be hard to tell from the picture, but that's a minimum of two inches

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  Thanks to all of the students, parents, and EC's who made my ... at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were ... able to see some family and good friends in both places (if any of you

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006