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  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... , not recorded Which are both pretty much okay, since you’re a freshman ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your chance ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to ... sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home, so let me do my best to help you understand. When I got to campus we

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  obvious solution to this dilemma. As much as I love writing, creative ... first semester senior who just decided to change her major around, this ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  sacrificing too much else. As for me, I'm trying to keep things low-key during ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  her school, she is pretty much a revolution of one as she tries to push ... Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we change the space with wicked lighting setups. So much is the same: our ... honestly makes it so much fun. i love b1 so much!!!!!!!!!! Aarushi: i

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  day in 5.112 -5.12 -INTEGARLS* -3.091, or, How to Draw Pretty Pictures ... Milliseconds of 35 MIllisecond Pulsars How to Finish Your HASS Requirement in 50 ... Theory, or How I Learned to Stop Losing and Love Math -The Cities of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  counselors need to retain the element of surprise *maniacal suspicious laughter ... just want to say that we will try our absolute best to provide helpful ... ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  the religious symbol and the double helix is meant to show the need for ... ? Questions from last entry will be answered when I get back to Beantown. Well ... I humbly consider to be the most superior Brass Rat ever. (Hee.) My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  exactly with it on the classes needed to get there. Students who are ... moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  's really not much else to say about that. Incidentally, are there some ... how much people love it or what they should improve. To be fair, it's a ... the best way to talk about my life since I last wrote without publishing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  as the prime minister. I sent the link to my friends, like, haha check ... entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to ... . Yes, I feel some connection to this entire FTX catastrophe as SBF and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  don't want to brag too much, especially considering it was literally ... at Ring Premiere; then everyone scrambles to spend their life savings ... ring premiere and delivery is its own smol tradition, although much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  classes offered this fall...and realizing how much I wanted to take a bunch ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... historically contributed to its current shapes. In doing so, we will come to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... huge plus. When studying for exams, it's NOT agony to flip through my old

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 (To be done before you come): Figure out the big questions that you have ... , faculty, and anyone else you manage to meet. Rule #1: If you're paying for

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008