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  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it ... Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... MIT has received my mid-year grade report? You really don't need to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  and ready to mail. And again, you will have to wait to get your letter ... forward to watching "The Incredibles" tonight and not thinking about ... 've been lucky enough to work so far with Stu, Quinton, Salvador (the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  ...," nor can I quantify the anxiety it evokes. I did a "senior sale" to get ... significance. I get stressed out if I'm not taking every opportunity to see my ... me want to postpone getting my diploma. I worked hard to make it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year ... for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a ... ’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our ... transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech ... to get as much experience as possible in the fields I was considering ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  actually do get to practice in real situations all these skills that we ... afterward and forgetting how to quite approach it. Getting that practice is ... exactly what I joined GEL to get! Slowly but surely I’m gaining the skills

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... moving to another dorm next year. So to sum up, don't get tunnel vision ... shocked when you get there to find everything's not always puppies and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  selective a college was because I knew that some would be harder to get into ... really hard to get into and others less hard. For that reason, I made sure ... 't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  -Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, wanted me to get a bunch of stuff done over the next term, but I didn ... another lab to get ice, rotovapped it, added aryl grignard, and began a ... Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the ... struggling to get the whole thing to fit together just right. All of their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  is going to look like until you get it developed, and you can't just go ... ="48932" /] Postcards and snail mail. It feels nice to get a postcard in the mail, so I ... having to check my phone for the time. So I'm getting an analog wristwatch

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  normally have. Basically, to get sophomore standing, you have to have 96 ... ), but I personally accepted it because I want to get 18.03 (Differential ... ’ll help me figure out what I want to do with my life. If I get through the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  we can get to help solve the problems. There's very much an "I ... get used to that. I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief ... . MIT students are complex. This is a fact of life. I've also had to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  'm going to stop yelling. My voice is getting hoarse, and everyone in the ... Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  mostly for me to get information on the role rather than anything on their ... , it wasn’t hard to get puzzle team or the art director, as both the ... puzzles. Importantly, we had to start getting in contact with [annotation

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  compelled to remind everyone that it's never the numbers alone that get you in ... would get outstanding grades.)" You don't need a high school diploma to ... application tracking. How can i get to know when it has arrived? Can you suggest

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006