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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  would be like my time at MIT prepared me for the wrong thing and then when I get thrown out into the cold, cold world graduate I’ll be completely ... was the first time I did the wrong pset, but that would be a lie. I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... all, they probably would be willing to teach you how to do those things

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me ... – wake up fail. Missed church this week :( 1:00 pm - went to the gym to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  SEMESTER MIT GRADES ARE THE SAME. That's right, you heard me, everybody will ... retake the class you "failed" but it doesn't show up as having taken it ... 3) Nothing is new anymore During your first semester at MIT you'll be

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  showed as purple. The downside was that there was a lot of transfer; my ... change that😤. I foolishly thought playing the ukulele was going to be easy ... I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  the probability that the next child of Individuals 1 and 2 will be ... long will the neuron take to reach a membrane potential of -65 mV if the ... later gives the one-time-step update rule we will use for simulating the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  . also, the first week was slated to be virtual. I'd leave the States on June 15th, do the training week in-person, and possibly be able to travel ... situation would last, though. thus, the initial deadline of May 15th had to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  What will life be like next week? The week after that? 6 months from ... companies and jobs may no longer be around next year. But the world will still ... season of Survivor?), you will be about the age I am now, which, bedtime

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  essay test that started in March - and will be given for the second time ... failing to release such samples to the public. "We will change that," said ... should not be the primary way kids learn to write," said Wayne Camara, vice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... scenario? Our intuition will be to simply pick the scenario that saves the ... precisely one life. The maximum principle will be unable to choose one over

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  GREATEST, and I am going to continue to be the GREATEST", and then they fail ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... Office, my mommy]?" and that random undergrad will point you in the correct

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  supplementary materials after the deadline, but some won’t. Be mindful of every ... the clock is ticking down. Anything might happen—there could be a power outage, the Wi-Fi could fail, your pet could have a meltdown, the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did ... of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  application process will mess with your preconceptions and alter the way you ... essay the best it can be. This post is called "discovering yourself ... dropped, which will they be? On MIT's application you'll have to remember

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  minority students relax? Will I be accepted if none of my clothes are from ... considered in the USNWR rankings. For that matter, you might not even be ... your first instinct will be to take my list, and fire back all those

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  will be in each class. Preregistration happens at the end of the previous ... the same time! :-) I totally agree with this, so I will revise my hearty ... transfer the payment to the credit card. And if you can't trust yourself to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  email the document if the fax option has repeatedly failed for you. Faxing ... previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  this happens. "Typically a bus will be out of service going to the start ... then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... 'deadhead' from Sullivan to Wellington, so it will be out of service during

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  happy for the next four years, whether you will be challenged, whether you will be stimulated. The top schools are all top schools - it now comes ... questions from last entry will be answered this week when I do the Questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  in life. Once you've achieved this goal, you figure, everything will be wonderful. Life will be good. I mean, you got into MIT, right? You've got it ... until they get that piece of paper that will open the gate into the "real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005