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• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  pact is a pact). :-) Enjoy these other pics from the day's festivities ... exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth as a baby's, as they say. Which leaves yours truly as

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... second semester is similar, except that if you pass, you get a letter grade
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  maybe I will later this month/semester we will see). But this is a post ... some thoughts about life at MIT :). The math in the first part is some ... ,y).[/caption] One question we can ask is the following: If we only know about the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ="yeah the number system sucks"]why building 26 is bunched between 12 and 36 ... our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is ... will figure out about me is that I’m a [annotation note="the colloquial

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to ... is always calmer than the ones that follow. For now at least, I ... yourself and putting aside time for yourself is not just a necessary evil. It

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In official signage, everything is capitalized: Red Line, Transportation Security Administration, Stata Center, et cetera. This is not true of most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  it is *top secret* stuff for now. So, look out for that post around mid ... college apps). So, here goes: Armor by Sara Bareilles Sara is one of our favorite artists… as is probably evident by our Waitress post. And she

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a ... environment, and with such immense power an important question arises: Is every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... worldwide fan communities. The idea is, people tend to think of media as ... creative production is an intensively collaborative process, whether that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  design project which is due on Thursday (I actually still don't know what ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... Day, the MIT I/S Department (now IS&T) hired student developers to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... heavy and silver with fish. The air is warmer, though not warm, and on ... concentrated, more intense, though all of Alaska is like that – it demands full

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  . Here at MIT, the date is significant for a different reason - it's the day that the November Rule technically "expires". What is the November ... 'll give my opinion on that later. Why is this a thing? The Tech has their

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all over the country. The better news is that she has whittled down her list

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  absolutely outstanding. 2. OSU is a very, very big place. I had been to a ... involved cleaning glassware. Washing dishes is not a job for an undergraduate; washing dishes is a job for a dishwashing machine, okay. Labs at MIT are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a ... personalities.com). Here is an excerpt from a description of my “personality ... everyone is happy. Discussing scientific theories or debating European

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not ... Essay -  this is one of the two classes I'm taking "for fun". I don ... class would make sense. It also helps that the professor is Ta

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  that has always resonated with me is that "we are what we celebrate." Celebrity is fundamentally heroic; even our most tragic celebrity narratives (#winning) still construct the archetypes we pattern ourselves after. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  blogosphere, rest assured you’re in the right place. It is Elizabeth here. There ... . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011