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• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at Harvard. This semester, I took advantage of that for the first time, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... hugs.) and talk about why you're withdrawing, what your plan is for the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  information for international students here on our website, if you're an ... (IOI) is the world's preeminent programming competition for high school ... all. However, they can be great experiences for the right sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  overwhelmed by the barbarians (thank you Dictionary.com for your invaluable sample sentences). Maybe overwhelmed isn’t even the word I’m looking for here. Is there a word for being utterly thrilled, pleasantly surprised

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  went off to distant lands for the summer are finally coming home, and ... orientation (safe travels for the rest of you arriving over the weekend!).  It'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  Rolled - and it was a very different website then. There were no photos, no ... time, and now actually gets taken seriously. And for good reason too ... respect your wishes, even if you ARE a certifiable moron for going with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb ... fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor Day weekend. [SIDEBAR: for those that aren't familiar with the great

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... quotes below for comment. Many college admissions officers support the idea [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just ... @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new Rainbow Lounge, which was pretty sweet. For much more information about gay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs ... one criticizes me for them. No one goes up to me and says, well, the ... vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... into some websites and blogs on this very site, I started really liking

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i ... .033 Computer Systems Engineering, had canceled recitations for the day. it would ... online from clover, then went to medical and got tested for covid again. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... ="aligncenter" width="225"] yay 6.1010![/caption] 6.1200: a.k.a Math for Computer ... song about graph theory for the class earlier this week, which I’ll write

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... here. I stayed in Boston for June-July and then traveled and saw family for August. I was continuing my research with the Isola lab on inner

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  Racing, Bodensee Racing, Greenteam, Rennteam, and TU Fast for spending time ... friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... Formula SAE – SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers – teams from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  present have done for us! Also *virtual hugs* for being our audience! It ... ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it ... like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... quantity. For the purposes of this entry we will apply the concept of LΔ to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  inside joke turned into a source of pride for not only the fraternity and MIT, but for all of Boston, and it was soon commemorated as a public ... , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me ... used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the change has been building for months or years. I knew months ago that my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023