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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  huge plus. When studying for exams, it's NOT agony to flip through my old ... class and providing motivation for learning the material (Peter Fisher ... those two classes. For some reason, it took me 28 days to take my notebook

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... for "when I have more time" -- sleep, for one, but mostly art. Two ... could be sleeping. I should probably go scavenge for real food. Lately it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  Building.  That's because those nocturnal diurnal (what's the term for "does ... you may or may not have noticed, I've been absent from these blogs for ... 's in Langer Lab, of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  have so many resources here for people who feel overworked or ill.  Piper ... way to prepare myself for eventually getting my EMT certification.  Anna ... year for help with any problems. 3) MIT Medical MIT Medical is right on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• 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 ... for STS (it's been sitting in my backpack for weeks now) get into ... I'll be an admissions blogger, and so on. I promise - like, for real

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in ... ? These people couldn't pick a better place for that? My friend Spencer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them ... them to campus for CPW that April. I saw their nerves when they first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... pretty smoothly until she brought up that she would be waking up for crew ... and hello panda) -- and it's not easy to describe. (For those of you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... than normal cameras, which just calculate a color for each pixel and ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  will actually trade money for the transient pleasure of drinking it, and ... want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of vicarious unfulfillment into my delicious sandwich. But for myself and my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays, and revised, revised, revised. In order to compete for scholarships

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  ? What could I be doing differently? Am I asking for help when I need help ... something or by defining ourselves with certain characteristics. For example ... individual with spunk and character. As a result, I strived for A's, worked

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• 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 / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... started packing for your adventure and I hope you're shaking with excitement ... incidents and alcohol related deaths. He came home for Thanksgving that year

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... 've asked for old computers and furniture from a number of such entities ... great number of things. However, there's one place of refuge for discarded

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  for Course 1C (civil engineering) majors, but there are lots of people ... focus for this class is infrastructure projects, the keystone of civil engineering. So far we have covered method for financially evaluating projects

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  . That's a topic for another day, though; as promised, here's the follow-up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure ... cracker jacks and funnel cake for the first time. I fell in love with green

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010