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• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will ... remains relevant to continuing ed-tech utopianism. However, if you're someone trying primarily to understand what Minerva is (and ought to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  forces you to study and furthermore provides you with a wide range of study ... straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however ... know that this entry won't be helpful to everyone out there, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  12-to-18 month Master’s of Engineering, only available to MIT EECS ... minutes each to complete. As you might imagine, particularly at a school ... like I always do, on my way from something or other to something else

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  a female friend, which forced me to come out to myself. It ate me ... Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the letters into roots and x-fixes"]ad and visum[/annotation](from videre, "to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , but I wanted to compare the two experiences, with the caveat that I ... was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost ... undergrad, I found it difficult to context-switch between so many obligations

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in ... When I went online to start typing up this post, I noticed an ... writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall. Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still ... everything on my laptop (thank goodness, because my life depends on Google

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  the morning. Quickly assemble breakfast. Head to lecture. Cook lunch, or ... to more lectures, or recitations. Then a student group gives an ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  version of the Google Translate app, and you’re good to go. Of course ... program or grant to get you there. And it’s not just study abroad: there ... ’s time to share the wealth, so I’m here to lay out for you all the tips and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later post!). But as always, everything at MIT seems to runs on its own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to ... – – “Most likely to cause you to stub your toe on an unevenly paved sidewalk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  ) or which have never come close to profitability (doordash loses a few ... determined by investors and venture capitalists, and it is only meant to serve ... , barring strange web3 schemes that try to tokenize people, individuals don

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  that was designed to keep people like me and my family out, yet forces us ... officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  .  MIT truly is a place where you are forced to drink from the firehose ... “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine ... definition of spread to account for the whole cohesive project/idea that could

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Asia, that we were some fucked up hybrid of past colonizers and forced to ... Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019