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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... you'll need to share resources. Fun Fact! There are 92 physics faculty

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  can't exactly wear a naked Arduino on your foot.  We needed to build an enclosure! The first enclosure was a very rough job - we just needed it to ... am, to have regular access to a 3D printer and a laser cutter and drill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  approach to hamentashen should be a bit interesting. How does a single cell ... order to decide who begins the debate. With a call of heads, Team ... . . . sweet potato. It's fun to make Hamentashen with friends, it's a great

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  , what information to include and focus on, and how to write for a comic ... assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a ... , we read and discussed a new webcomic or graphic novel to see all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• FAQ / Afford

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• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  ). Take as much time as you need to make your decision (and if we can help ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  to learn for the test. For an AP. For a final. The singular goal was to ... learning that's been weighing on me a lot since I came to MIT. I often times ... to finish filing my transfer apps or taking a semester off. I really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... are very different. It would probably be much easier to start with ... prospective student said: Hi. Awesome post...Just thought I'd bring a typo to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  to communicate back and forth. The A/V setup worked surprisingly well ... transportation technology. Our bill, the TransporTech Act, aims to offer states a ... surveil individuals without having to lift a finger, and can mine that data

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  , and introduce the Pulse pen to people on their campus. It's a smart move ... a spin on the prize wheel, with an opportunity to win a $150 smart pen ... commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  we were playing some kind of game and needed to add up a bunch of ... So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  , etc. The environment is much more relaxed and gives students a chance to ... need a perfect GPA to get into MIT?" short answer, no. long answer to ... their own research here?" Yes, but you need to get a faculty advisor

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be ... way that I related to quite a bit: she personified imposter syndrome as a Part of Her. She (roughly) said: “I don’t want this Part of Me to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  not being smart enough to pursue a "meaningful" subject. These thoughts ... talk with her, to which she gave me a pep talk about how I need to stop ... only wanted to do a partial computer science degree, meshing it alongside

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  who are resourceful don't need a specific resource to succeed. YOU don't need a specific resource, or setting, to succeed. You've got everything ... mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... ' December 9 Cami: A link to an MIT qualtrics form to sign up for free

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ’d be much more likely to respect and sympathize with people who have a ... destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... wherever they were standing to reattach it, only to have it fall off again a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn trying desperately to convince a young lady to apply to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this ... like to be able to keep finding non-GMO diets while at MIT." I've got a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  out to IDHR does not trigger a formal investigation or resolution (i ... are. ← Why does there have to be a right choice?” I opened the IDHR ... , whenever I needed a place to return to. But I remembered the previous

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022