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  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  makes it really easy to explore. Do you need a course 2 class that counts ... ="alignnone" width="1504"] the categories are ranked by how much i need them to ... a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  way through a ropes course. Learn to paint. Roll your own sushi. Wear paper clothing. Travel to Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Spend a day ... weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  . This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time ... wish I had more time to do. I actually have a list: 1. Visit the Museum of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class ... beautiful and so big and has so much! There is bound to be a place for you. 4 ... . There are going to be crazy smart talented kids in your year. That does

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  needed nothing from them at all, and I had let it get to me a bit too much ... friends who have graduated, they seemed to all mention a common theme: the ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  "bad" answers. You just have to know yourself and know what you need and ... mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... encourage other students to work to the best of their abilities; in a sense

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees ... in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes. Nobel Week is a pretty exciting time on campus, since a current or former

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  in the sky - we were able to get a lot of solar energy and perform ... illuminated as the ball of energy swelled to the size of a coconut, and a faint ... a group of MIT students to prove our windshield strength, we create a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  so much energy to each class, it was hard not to be excited. After the class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... Championship Cup in picture, we needed to win West Point resoundingly. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  a successful startup, we're going to need to know a language rock ... myself and fellow cofounders of a startup. We need to be well versed and ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  do smart nerdy things with smart nerdy people, you might want to check ... progressed to some level of the affiliated fairs, as well as a handful of ... long-delayed flight from Boston. After a nap at my hotel I went down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  ! Q: Well, that certainly wouldn’t be a bad choice, but you need to ... life, and needs. Just because her college is a good fit for her, does not ... of the things that you may NEED to get out of a college experience are

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... anyway, I resolved to appreciate my freshman year of college as much as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the ... anyone ever needs to know about the unanswerable questions that trouble

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  request a transfer to EC? I even trudged across Mass Ave in a torrential downpour to ask the poor, exhausted deskworker for a tour. I asked a ... thing to do. If I were to do it all over again as a prefrosh, knowing what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  needs to be improved," simply because things are much more complex than ... do not need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify part or ... already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  need to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify part or all of ... strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  does a great job of explaining what sort of folks are best matched to the ... recommendations need to come from a teacher who's known me for at least a year and ... have created' essay. Does this have to be something unique? Say, for

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of ... 2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019