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  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  process of "WHAT???? HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN COME UP WITH THIS???"-->"I KNOW ... a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• 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 / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  environment will vindicate a fledgling understanding of the world by othering ... of how they were by my side, or how we were together, during ... . This might have been fostered by a culture of collaboration instead of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• 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 / How to Human

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

  

  -throat frenzy that is the job search process. My understanding of this might be ... phenomenon by which we return to stable levels of happiness in spite of major ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free

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

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... semester I spent a larger than usual amount of time thinking about more ... class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... of forty people at dinner. But mornings feel cold and quiet and serene

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  express themselves. Below you'll find accounts of six very different rooms ... . Each person was photographed in their room after being heavily prepped by a team of hair and makeup artists, as well as relaxing in their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  11 AM train to Rome. In the process, I took this obligatory picture of ... takes advantage of its tourists, corroborated by this article sent to me ... DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  this). This is another one of those. It was written by Janelle Salanga ... ? [annotation note='i was moved by aching accounts of falling and failing in ... become great. i would already be known by virtue of my association with mit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main essay so many times that, by submission time, it did not even make sense ... service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  sketches, a discussion of my thought process, etc. This was a somewhat ... Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... like any good MIT student, 10 days of that has driven me absolutely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  MIT account. The account provides a number of benefits, including: Access to the ... 's calendar of application-related dates: Early Action October 20: Last day to ... -December: Early Action applicants notified of admission decision February 15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  they showed us, a sort of optimization of a specific chemical process ... the set-up of a physics problem to me, and I remember being awed by her ... a goat, as demonstrated by my palpable lack of papier mache goats, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays, letters of recommendation, required tests, interviews, and ... life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of the admissions process. We ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• 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