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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Tess of the D'Urbervilles by ... : Intensive study of a range of texts by a single author or by a limited group ... -Century British Novels. reading list: Dubliners by James Joyce A Portrait of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... 'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious when I say blogging has become one of the most important parts of my life

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine ... ’s Valentine’s Day, and that restaurant has three dollar signs,” one of them said ... plausible deniability of “I thought this was just a friend hangout!” But that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we ... knit. For example, on the day of my return, they had a hotdog eating

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• FAQ / Interview

  How am I assigned an interviewer?

  frequently. Details about our interview process and what to expect are
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  " by MIT Professor Meejin Yoon, which opens tonight in honor of Friday ... Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will ... about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT ... admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... , and do all kinds of outreach--traveling the country, visiting high ... process, picking and choosing which colleges they want to apply to. For

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... this big list of about 10 different class combinations and had narrowed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  the process, I forgot to do things for myself, by myself, and with ... , Jenga-ed into the trunk of my roommate's parents’ car. The morning of ... , rearranged the two sets of closet/bed/desk, and halfheartedly unpacked t

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  by the scam that is the college admissions process. I've always just ... in my junior year of high school, hated it, and swore I'd never return ... 've talked about this in past blogposts, but I'm definitely growing out of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice process a little mysterious at best, so I thought I'd clear up the timeline ... . Late May/early June -- receive a booklet with descriptions of each dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online ... , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  . Humanities weren't a thing. By this point, you are most likely tired of me ... by youtube. Or you left this page, though I'm not certain of how you ... ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  do get to see MIT, at 7 am, in its glory of quiet energy, just waiting ... Hello! I’m Theo, one of CJ’s unfortunate friends from our dorm (I ... Security Administration, Stata Center, et cetera. This is not true of most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  , for whatever reason, I had a ton of energy when I got back, so Javier '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of this entry was the last thing I heard Rick '09 yell as I skipped out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• 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

  

  better! Evaluation Evaluation is the process of assigning the board a score ... for each piece by counting the possible number of moves for each piece ... negamax version, which takes advantage of the fact that if black is up by 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  of work. But by modern journal standards, would you accept this paper ... hindered and facilitated by the global conflicts of the 20th century (WW1, WW ... 're procrastinating on, here’s a large link-dump of blog posts written by the ancients

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020