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  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... ?[/annotation] I mean, MIT is objectively great. Now that’s not to say it’s perfect ... ="at least at first?"]like it.[/annotation] So, what matters to you? Is it

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  . Then, using some nifty image processing, it allows you to remove that ... Fill). The only question really left is--can it do Captchas? Signing ... . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  clean it is, I'll sit on it if I want to"]sat down on the floor[/annotation]to ... understanding of life is to live it, but I think it's even more than that: I think ... here and there when it was absolutely necessary to confront something

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  approval. This is why it's important to search for potential UROPs ahead of ... 's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph ... and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  four digits which is unique to our specific person. It’s crazy the way we ... how powerful it is to you…but I think it’s amazing the way that that ... segments. That itself is unique. I don’t know how else to say it other than

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  prestigious universities to support it - at least in formal settings - is big ... encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading, given that the text explicitly states (contrary to its title) that “no

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  personal lives. It’s hard to express in words, but there is also a certain ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... , like an adult. That might sound strange to you, but what I mean is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  annoying, because it's alphabetical by school rather than what is to me the ... fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a ... . (Strictly speaking, they don't even have to declare then; it's possible to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I'd like to blog about things I've been doing around my house, it's not going ... year through sophomore year. I understand what it's like to be failing

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  asking why this is unethical if it's public knowledge. To begin, well, it ... DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next ... /Drop: although registration feels final, it’s quite easy to change your schedule. Add Date is ... following subject designations: Lab - everyone is required to complete a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  is living around my sisters. It's so nice to have so many people ... measure things. Which is actually more difficult than you think it might be! It's a great class because it teaches you how to measure physical

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  years—it seems to me that what you choose is a lot less important than ... is. That’s not very long. It’s going to be as important, as fun, and as ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  description of the composer. It is so. cool. to look over a study sheet and ... a piece distinct.) 21M.235 ("Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800") is ... movement or location or time period. It's like learning to recognize the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  understand things makes it easy to understand how the world is so complex ... Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  because when it does, it breaks over us, and our office is deluged with ... they've hit the submit button. The simple answer is to fill out the FUN ... small but necessary acts of self-care. So here is something to help you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to ... not just academic exhaustion. If it were, I would know how to handle it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  'm finally free to come back to the blogs (: It's not that I haven't been ... how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you ... Sleep. Eat. Exercise. It's easy to let your health slip, especially when

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  It’s difficult to not feel like MIT is a bubble, keeping you distant ... , style my hair, stroll to class. It is possible, I’m more convinced now ... take up.  It’s not hard for me to see why staying up late is such an

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022