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  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50% participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... the grading scale in many of my classes. Not much Ivy -style grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  they call UC, much like how MIT's is nicknamed the Stud. Thanks to ... tried to find the room the graders were supposed to be in. CMU's campus is ... , you have to use their language, right?" The joke is that Harvard calls

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  there is a certain charm to that. The restaurants in Boston are awesome ... professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... there is a giant music free-for-all. Its definitely one of the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you ... is Peter Reddien, seriously the boy-wonder of Course 7 (biology

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  grilled shrimp. In case this is of interest to anyone here, Kip had the ... that I sent out to some of the most distinguished American ... , is as close to the asymptote of world famousness as any theoretical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... weaved through the horde of students in the Infinite to get to lobby 10

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I ... As you may or may not know, I'm a Maseehdonian (aka I live in the new

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some ... soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  , especially at my level, is probably not a realistic goal to set in the first ... ’t work? Am I just bad at doing research? In some ways, the answer to that ... mechanics, and I didn’t spend as much time in the lab as I should have because

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a ... Problems... Admissions Is Not One" 52 things not to do. Chris: Notes on the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  to know what the place actually looks like. Right. So here it is ... on the slide and jump in to save two different kids. So that's my job ... perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  , but the irony is most people live in the watery areas. Austin is lush ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... can change paths, though sometimes the path you want to take lies in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ... having creative power is something I value in whatever things I decide to ... itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  )...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller ... (as in, here, lol, not the picture - the pic is from 18.02 =p) One ... to do well in them, but if you don't do the psets, then you can't do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart ... : the workplace is no MIT. This past summer, I found myself struggling to ... good. I never know when to shut up, and I'm the loudest in the room half

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  the fun things about going to college is having to relearn and adapt to ... the transition from high school to college much smoother and allows ... just got to come to find out. The Tunnels The MIT tunnel system is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I ... in Maryland, building cameras for telescopes. The woman to my right ... . The first speaker is Josh Shiode. Josh has a PhD in astronomy from UC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  -America accolades, the most in the program's history. Schannon was a First-Team selection in both the free and air events. Michael Horvath was named to the ... play on the MIT Alumni Club of Boston team. As I like to say in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to ... correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake ... , but I vowed to make the most of the experience; I decided to kickstart

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020