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  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  student does more harm than good. This is the first year I've gotten to ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be ... weather, and frequent rainfall. The coming of the rains also signal the beginning of the academic year, as the Philippine school year starts in June

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  good idea as well if you want to make the most of your space. 6. General ... Welcome to the scary world of College Shopping. Who knows what you ... pillows, but most of them don't, so getting your own is a pretty good idea

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  this isn't the best "tag yourself" prompt. It does kind of read like the ... months before the first day of classes. Pre-registration is not as ... two of the classes that I originally submitted are still on the list. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  often, and it does wonders. It takes us out of the toxic "what if I did ... just the start of receiving these types of decisions; after it come ... actually end it! Think of it as the universe guiding you along the messy

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look ... ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... all of the things that are different.  Back in 2013, I was a science

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  people told me that this was a good method of advertising the Guild. I ... going?[/caption] One I remember the dozens of things people told me about ... , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing ... .7, if you are more familiar with the 4.0 scale. This GPA was good enough ... smattering of B's along with A's every semester. I completed the requirements

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  interested in the topic area of my work Feeling like I can do good through ... be around good people — I loved the kinds of people I was around this ... easily because of the glare. And that’s why I’m out here, primarily: to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in-depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... and revolutionary one. The field of visual storytelling is really broad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  GOOD: This is one of the largest dorm gyms in terms of pure surface area ... like 5 years GOOD: The Next House gym has a pretty good suite of ... . While it has several good machines, the lack of space makes it hard to do

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a ... volume of the comics The Adventures of Tintin. The mural was painted by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was ... with the family of one of my students, and they were warm and welcoming

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... about it in your application. And for the rest of you poets, dancers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow ... of real places at MIT. From there, as the resident Mechanical Engineer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  reading mine. June 2022 What does it take to get to know someone? One of the ... ’s a sign of aging, I guess, but I now think that staying all day in the ... , because a lot of Filipinos have two first names. We could talk about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023