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

  

  constellations if you watch long enough. The best way to be there is on your back. If you twist to the right, there are books with cracked spines and dog ... to [annotation note=" The name for the office at MIT that handles cases

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission ... something for everyone that they failed to convey what made their institution

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  student gets to know Pappalardo very well over the years- they typically ... senior year. (If you'd like to see more about 2.007, all students who take the class are required to create a website about it- you can check out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  is not yet great. If you have financial need, some of the program fee may be covered (the program fee includes housing), but you will ... out the notes I took at the info session here. If you want to learn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The ... AMC and NSLI-Y were the be-all and end-all to my college acceptance, and ... , we have to change the visibility of things we don't want to be doing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... out to someone through the void of the internet. I wanted to be a part ... bloggers have to be able to do all the things that I was completely useless

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  to see if spots have opened up after the initial rush. CI-M - a ... to do, and I didn't fail my exam! Deans on Call are volunteer staff ... provide for you, if you just ask. When I came close to No Recording the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  to this application! These essays have to be the best thing I’ve ever ... , not inspirition. The opposite. I realized “if I only have to change the ... deferred in December, I knew this had to be the case. I had given up any hope

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  vulnerable to the anguish of failing a test, like I was back in freshman year ... was doomed to fail the entire class and then fail at life. He took my ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  out to be the Taste of Louisiana festival at the Jones Plaza. There was ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events ... surreal weekend. It was my first time in the South, if we don’t count Los

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  , and you are going to be visiting Cambridge sometime this fall, let the ... . Relax. Relax. Relax. Remember, there is no way to "fail." The ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... in applications, and the class council does some magical process to ... the word limit because if you go over it'll just stop printing at the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer ... . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical ... systems because in biological systems, a lot of the phenomena has yet to be

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... important the next day. If you're nodding off during an exam, you'll be ... something else. If you don't know what to try, see the third hint and solicit

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  optimizations to be able to search deeper into the game tree. Sidenote: I think 6 ... things, but for the purposes of this article I'll be writing as if it were ... just happens to be the number of squares on a standard chess board! Funny

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  if the trees would just liven up a bit. I have to admit that, although ... all, a quasi-vegetarian), it would be pretty sweet if the trees ran ... my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... principle that solves the problem. If such a principle exists, it should be ... if we extend the situation to an unequal loss of lives depending on the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  MIT. I'm not sure if I'll have to meet with the professor to "prove" my ... . I was lucky enough to be assigned to my first choice advising seminar ... was lucky enough to be assigned my first choice class here too- 21F.716

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005