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New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.
Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We -
Blog / IAP
[Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures
. Hostels, at least all the ones I stayed at, offered lockers that could only ... store offered wonderful designs. Something is so cute about spending a few ... could all be a sample bias of being on break from college, the freedom of -
Blog / Internships & Externships
i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early
said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer -
Blog / About Decisions
it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred
offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this -
Blog / Academics & Research
Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms
in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings ... by offering more course options online. For example, 8.S05 (Special Offering of Quantum Mechanics II), usually a fall course, can now also be -
Blog / Academics & Research
What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet
/Fischer/Weitzner's Foundations of Internet Policy, both also offered this fall). Here's our course ... of the other courses offered in CMS/W & SHASS; in fact, probably ... classes offered this fall...and realizing how much I wanted to take a bunch -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…
. Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... also offer classes on genre fiction and science fiction, taught by an MIT ... . Since we offered constructive criticism in a round-table format, every -
Blog / Academics & Research
Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.
's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer ... Italian is offered, and only over IAP.) The very first humanities course I ... whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!
amazing applicants to whom we were unable to offer spots. To those of you in ... 'll recall that we extended an offer to Evan last year but made him wait until Sam and Mitra had graduated - we've extended the same offer to Snively -
Blog / Academics & Research
Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!
learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... classes are offered exactly the same as the regular material learned in ... biology professor's Kitchen Chemistry seminar offers baked goods every other -
Blog / Academics & Research
What can you do in four years?
resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much you take advantage of what MIT has to offer, there are going to be ... whether you'll be able to take advantage of everything MIT has to offer for -
Blog / Events
Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works
molecules do a perfect job: they rotate the light wave 90 degrees, so that all ... light is rotated a bit, but not the full 90 degrees required for all of it ... light the full 90 degrees.) G: 50% (all of the green subpixels are letting -
Blog / About Decisions
Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...
CollegeConfidential I don't know a single person who has gone to College ... experience CollegeConfidential is more a source of stress and nervousness and ... days leading up to Pi Day. Frantically checking CollegeConfidential is -
Blog / About Decisions
Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.
started applying to college. I went into the whole process knowing that I wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in -
Blog / Admissions
Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.
(adcoms from colleges and universities, GC's from high schools, independent ... year) and attend classes and networking sessions. There's a "college fair for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up -
Blog / Study Abroad
The Cambridge-MIT Exchange
college crew. Seeing another academic system, one where much more emphasis ... at other colleges. The reason? The exchange program is really excellent ... students. The MIT program put me in a college just like any other Cambridge -
Blog / Admissions
The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."
disturbing article today. Reality-television-culture meets college admissions ... that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges -
Blog / Advice
Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end
recorded when I was talking to my parents about college decisions. To spare ... . Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a ... : Ever since college started, I haven't been able to keep up with bullet -
Blog / About Decisions
In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now
senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college ... unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was ... , but three years ago, I wouldn’t think MIT was the “right” college to