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  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  .012 - or it may simply be the same as mine. As you will quickly see after you ... I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when ... you (I'm sure you know that already, being the zealous beavers that you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  will be my general thoughts about being in MITWE. Day 7 It was the day ... for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  moshing, and as a 5 '2 girl, i didn't have the best time being pushed around ... friends and being able to hang out with my whole class for the first time ... year. fingers crossed that spring semester will be as good as this one!!

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  . (By the way, being a TA for junior lab must really really suck. What a ... for graduation, and the order in which I took/will take them: Freshman ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  control over the college admissions process and, in the end, be very happy ... being smart in the admissions process). I knew that some schools were ... that the admissions process is all about whom the colleges admit and not

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  class will get a lot harder. I will, however, complain about the 1.5 hour ... be helpful to the freshmen in my wing. I’m supposed to be a go-to for ... . Time used to be so leaden, with the brutal impassivity of cold marble. It’s so

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  unnecessary (none will be offered), and that students will not be taking too ... statistics from the Tech today, let me paraphrase it in one Marilee Jones quote ... for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  be doing when we see a bar chart, and the effects of color on how we ... will continue working on this project over the summer and next year ... computer model to predict where people will look on an arbitrary image. The

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  your soul. The physical manifestation of the focus of the They Might Be ... empty right now, but will be gaining more clutter shortly), or room in ... reminder that Seattle will always be home to me. Sorry, Boston. But enough

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  be so draining. I taught about 20 hours a week, with the majority being ... times to ensure that tourists will see more than the pile of rubble that ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  's not shall lose... God bless the child that's got his own." If knowledge ... populations. I've come to see the Internet (and now blogs) with a strong fascination, mild skepticism and much trepidation. My blog will hopefully give

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  this conclusion. I simply wasn’t willing to commit the next four years of ... , enter our garages, or shower the sand from between our toes that we will ... it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as ... squinting against the bright lights, it looked pretty damn close to being full ... class of 2026’s Ring Delivery would be held! Ring Delivery is the big

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... there. It may not be the easy choice, but it’s a lot better than wondering ... . Sure, the loss feels fresh now- but with time, surely I’ll be assured

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  Policy also). Theoretical math will be my minor. After much thought, I ... immediately… only to be interrupted by more excitement (which, naturally, I had ... complete all those hopeful post beginnings, reenact the thrill of days long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly ... to take the form of, oh, I'm not going to give my best—it can be ... something with my friends for fun. When I'm writing for the admissions blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  will conduct incredibly complex processes regardless. And even the people ... philosophically, I also thought about these: Anyways, here is the spread! I will ... This year, I made a spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine. The magazine

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing ... meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  not strong, it will never be the biggest or best or bulkiest but it does ... will they be? Moments are better than minutes for the real cartographer ... be fun to share some with you. I asked the class to submit poems if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  and the scores won’t change. 2) They will most likely not be the factor ... keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010