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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  successful and failed policies have been deployed to address it in the past; [2 ... that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in the early 20th century, Harvard used a substantial grant from George F ... . Unlike most colleges, we get President's day off despite the fact that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... be as objective as I can (a lost cause, as a subjective being), the ... ’ll be hard, but I want to try. Give me a shot and you’ll see—I will try my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  the next time I post will be next semester....Just kidding, I'll post ... of the programs!") Well my eager little beavers, you would be right ... Oh man - considering the fact that JKim has posted not one, not two

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  good fellowship after an interview I was sure I’d failed. The fellowship ... fangirling the entire time. And I’ll be working with a nonprofit devoted to ... , given that I also passed the knowledge test back in high school yet failed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  if it will be or not, though she’s right that it’s weird to think that ... flipping the jewelry upwards. I told Archana the thing about not being able ... failing college and becoming an angry yard worker, or at least not being

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  because I’m being squashed: And the more squashed you get, the more work ... the content of this class. I found the homework to be more plug ... scores got cancelled, leading to the final being a whopping 45% of our

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  turn at being head chef and cooking dinner for the entire team. It’s a ... to my legs. Score 1 Mount Washington. Of course, it wouldn’t be the ... the rhythmic turns. It’s pure joy. I’m not a very good racer, I will

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , I'm awake before the sun has risen fully: I'm living at UPenn this ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  (relatively) hands down.      I wrote a check for the first time and failed miserably ... , they’d share that they would not be where they were if it weren’t for the ... my desires, but it’d still be nice if the major included those things

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

   https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the ... danger and the urgency of being on the highway was not new to us. Three ... become the bedrock of our society could only be disrupted by protest. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... -- which I am cautiously optimistic we will -- the odds are that it won't be for large numbers of people. Most people on the waitlist will not be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions ... , following the release of admissions decisions, we will be mailing admitted ... 've tried everything else! Admissions decisions will be available exclusively

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  be happy to meet with me. Absolutely mortified at the idea that they ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE ... ; frankly, I should have dropped the class after the midterm, but I was too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action ... . However, following the release of admissions decisions, we will be mailing ... will receive a decision on the 15th, you should visit decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  MIT. The downside to this, though, is that there will never be enough ... Fall 2022), but anything less won't be quite representative of the ... dorm to just be somewhere they sleep, and get the majority of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  working in a lab at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. It should be a ... It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  out to be Sarah stealing snacks from the pod lounge. When she came out ... favorite classes this semester, even though I failed the ASE for it earlier ... will be a welcome change. We're all too hosed to celebrate today, but my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  checklist, which will now be turned off. In order to reduce any extra stress (because there will never not be stress when you've poured your heart into a ... someone from our team will get back to you! Admissions decisions will be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022