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  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  people you need to impress, but the one that is often forgotten and hardest ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all ... like to live my life, finals and otherwise. I would be much happier, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  now. In other words, to me at least, much of today's unrest among ... in their room. This is funny because this continues to be a common ... , ranging from 1994 all the way back to 1934! In this post, I've embedded the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
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  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal ... missed dearly in Cambridge is the ability to do UROP/research during the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... Requirements. I needed it to graduate. Another funny thing about classes at MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become ... is the only path to success, which is a topic for another post.) I ... ’ve been rejected and your life is over. To make them happen, wherever you go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  without too much trouble. Your first semester in your major is Moo Moo ... need to study (it was for me). I also don't believe in books that ... *. There is no shame in not majoring in engineering**. It is okay to fail a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  up in my inbox. I think it is very interesting! Check it out...   ... -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My ... creative problem solving in children, and my original UROP project was to ... my grad student to include in her thesis (oops), so after a while, she

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... number of days in which to do so. Maybe the best plan is to identify

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  paradoxical need to preserve their happiness. And how much truth should ever be ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  to mention, I had tuned out so much of the material during lectures in ... . But, odds are, you need to take the class in order to fulfill some ... , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  ’t need anything." This refers to being tested in faith, and it applies to a ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
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  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  German". In particular, all undergraduates needed to present a thesis of ... difference to me is the math. Differential Calculus is listed in second ... space. This is in proportion to the growth of the student body, so it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  someone who happened to live here—this is what I'm going to be like in the ... heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
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  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... choose which dorms to live in. You live with people and you make memes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  much I'm interested in), and I really have to credit one class for giving me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... works! I hope in the future, once our alarm clock is finished, to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... :10, Davie was back in German class, and I, feeling much better, went to the ... something international students have done in the past to make them qualified

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
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  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  were some mistakes that needed to be made, by myself, in order for those ... home. You need to be physically present to build meaningful relationships ... that the deadline for MISTI-France, to give an example, is BEFORE THE END

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
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  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is one thing. But displaying my intellectual incompetence to them in real

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 27, 2024