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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... homework once every two weeks for each class), ate fancy three-course meals ... Potter (Cliche, I know...). Although leaving MIT for even a semester seemed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic ... report is slightly different from your transcript. The grade report is for ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe ... you were wondering). And after chatting with Professor Seering for 15 ... network for a summer internship and scheduled a second meeting in a few days

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors (Course 9 and Course 6-7) actually submit my concentration completion form for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I ... for the holidays. I had other plans for break, but they fell through, so ... the Media Lab, which was great for waking me up at 5am back in the fall

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  took care of that. They actually did tons of work for us- we submitted ... for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... than stellar. Also, this curly hair thing? So not working for me. Anyway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ’ theme last year too, same as the year before. I've only been here for a ... for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A ... -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... the end. (thanks for all your well-wishing on the last entry too! you ... - I took 4 courses and had my UROP for credit - so I'm not that hardcore

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1600"] (click for better visibility)[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... closest taxonomic approximations I could get for each mascot. Depending on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  drafted. backspace. retype. edit. submit. and here i am! so yes. it's taken ... credit for calculus from passing our math diagnostic. i convinced myself ... ="'didn't receive a sufficient score to qualify for credit for 18.01'"]failed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and ... challenge my thoughts and misconceptions. For most students, the humanities ... exhausted all relevant choices. MIT doesn’t offer many options for its purely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  submitting theoretical proposals for what should sit atop Lobby 7's empty ... was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2 ... community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... my darn itchy hands for escaping necessary work+studying way too often ... mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  Senior Haus for the bouncy ball drop. Tim brought an umbrella, partially ... the prefrosh, as we expected. For most of Friday, the students on my ... friends, at 10 for my campus tour. I told Becca and Tim about this, and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  has volunteered with the organization for two years. "Sulinya is one of ... center page theme and layout for the 2005 Dutchess County Red Cross Annual ... Exceptional Promise" (for which she was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... . One thing I did do is fry forty-six meatballs this weekend for the Mafia ... or potato-bean soup for the Mafia potluck at NH4, and Sam's Mom settled

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... for SAT. so i couldn't complete my test on time that had set up by the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... started! There are two computer options for MIT: Desktops and laptops. Both ... Perhaps as a consequence of this website, and also the fact that MIT gives

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  lungs lately. Circumstances are ripe for a brash inbox reorganization- as ... that MIT is about 50% Asian. 11:30: I met Mace (short for MeiHsin), the ... the tour guide for an eternal 70 minutes through the most nauseatingly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  arrives, only for it to go out of service Happened to me too many times ... frustration on my notes. When MIT websites don't work You ever hate it when you're trying to register for a PE class, but the server breaks because

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022