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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  I was done, though, I had a lot of residual energy to do ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards ... nationally and some of which are elected on a parish-by-parish basis. The

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of educational resources about transgender issues. Check it out. This ... his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  chosen for the feeling, the initial rush of energy until it rapidly decays ... future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students were vicious. Pretty much everyone has passed through this phase of life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  variety of meal options, and especially by the fact that it's possible to ... boxes of Chinese food during CPW. Is there a place on campus to get this food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  to get project help. host extra office hours by yourself when one of ... ; you can find our site here spend dozens of hours reading through code ... . identify every instance of outdated code and rewrite everything in terms of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  zero creative energy the entire semester, which was also a reminder of ... , who is the local plant genius! Spark is one of the programs run by ESP ... while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• 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!

  

  and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of ... . But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  , faculty, new and returning students are all excited by the start of the new ... process, coming soon... Something New... The Class of 2011 has descended ... see the college process from the point of view of a dad and not just

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  opportunity for many of you to attend spring meetings hosted by ECs and alumni ... energy developments. Wednesday MIT Club of France welcomes MIT President ... Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  of this week. Imagine this: Friday night is zipping by like a shiny ... of abysmal anxiety by a fence named Pass/ No Record. That's right ... amass a fortune someday by publishing a book of dinosaur comics, except

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  tour of the MIT Libraries -- There are so many resources available ... CambridgeSide Galleria shuttle distance of MIT, rated 26/30 by Zagats. Plus ... ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal professors, resources, and students. Hanhan especially enjoys the non

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  reach of seats by the window. I wrote for a while. I thought of Anis ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy spent caring isn't always energy spent constructing. Ta-Nehisi said

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to ... the processing of your documents, but not worth causing any additional

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  over the size of the holes, but the net-making process took way too long ... .   So by the time I figured all of this out, the weather had gotten ... - 4.141, where you apply the iterative design process throughout the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  week of symposia that is free and open to the public and organized by ... Voorhis, Associate Professor of Chemistry, who is working on solar energy ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012