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• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... available for a while. You can note in the Midyear Updates box that you are ... -- have no concept of "midyear grades." This is okay. You can ignore the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  to see fizzing water. They can drink soda for that. Feeling a little ... 't, go find one. He or she will remind you how exciting the world can be, when you're curious about everything and can see the magic in fizzing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  community. It can only produce a bunch of test scores and GPAs crammed into ... a diversity of skills, experiences, knowledge, background, who can all ... mix of students who will, as a collective, form the best class that can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  eat dinner at Next House. Even if you're not on a meal plan, you can ... hear, the food is pretty decent, but I can't speak from experience. The ... cereal, peanut butter sandwiches, and pasta*. *As sick as one can get of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those ... school. You can't compare an in-the-classroom learning environment with ... spent a summer back in New Mexico (can't get enough of that place) working

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... the table. I can't tell you how many people came up as I was standing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... paradox of choice: too many options can introduce cognitive costs that ... randomly into the grid at the bottom of pages, so that new visitors can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  you pick an event where you can meet up with your student each day ... river can be a nice break from all the events of the day. Have questions ... at Student Financial Services so you can stop in and get your questions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  Calculus: I can't mention 18.02 without describing Professor Poonen, an ... the top of my head: You get brownie points if you can name this. The ... natural intelligence drop off, I can seriously get to work on pursuing more

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can ... ? I can personally withstand a snow-induced catastrophe for at least ... students taking for-credit courses over IAP, you can also spend your time on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... can hear it: "M-I-T! M-I-T! M-I-T! GO MAGGIE! YOU’VE GOT THIS!" A blur ... ), but can be extremely motivational (like at XC Regionals). To all those

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  , what are you-click-doing?!But I can say these shoes were once black… and ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument.” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  promises can't shake off the sense that I've made some amazing friends and ... can only bridge a bit of the distance! Many of the kids we've taught are ... families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... short walk along the river can be a nice break from all the events of the day. Evenings can be cool here this time of year and it will even

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  courses 2 and 16, which means you can take it for EECS, Mechanical ... feels rewarding. I can't bring myself to write too much more about it ... when it feels hopeless, I can pull through. Sappy? Perhaps, but darned

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  competition video here because a grainy 480x360 video can't do it justice - you ... can read this great article in Popular Mechanics about FIRST, this year ... tension will remain. Good: your FIRST season CAN go perfectly, because the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Hrm, ok. Let's pretend everything is seven or eight days ago so that I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... local: I can go home to get things. Sometimes that means I can go home and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... that if celestial bodies won't move for you, you can at least move your ... nobody reading your blog can tell the difference anyway. At least I didn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  record and it records audio while you're writing, which means you can slow ... , so you can check his blog out for some videos showing the pen ... I can talk about my job at Los Alamos, which segued into what my plans

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  combinations of images and words such that you can figure out which word ... repeated. We want to see if infants this young can determine which words mean ... . My summer is productive, but not too taxing. I can still relax and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009