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• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  loud and clear in your application. _________________________________ Q ... applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... passages are those in which Maddox carefully reconstructs the frenzied weeks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but ... are conferences happening in this space. There were no people in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... . Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of Commencement 2019, in which most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... smaller classes in which you review the lectures and ask questions about problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  —  alongside President Kornbluth — to reaffirm our commitment to diversity in a ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  buy it again in the future as I plan on taking more Spanish classes. I ... had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... , and in reality I should probably just: Which is not to say that I can

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in another virtual event when they have in-person ones to look forward to this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... 'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I ... only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... loved (not reflected by my spotty attendance). in many of my course 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean ... summer in a row.  His major is Course 16, or Aerospace and Astrological ... NASA field center in Pasadena, California.  Pasadena is about an hour bus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you'll take advantage of the Parent Lounge. The Parent Lounge will be in the ... Headquarters/check-in. It's a good place to relax, and to meet other parents. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  the final steps in the long journey that is the medical school ... in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... may know, asking an MIT student what they’re majoring in may result in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  freshman exams were the easiest ones." "Let's hope so!" "I could go in there ... half of me was focused on the construction going on in Killian Court ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  days in [annotation note="Independent Activities Period"]IAP[/annotation], Bad Ideas Weekend takes hold in MIT like glitter: it’s everywhere, if you look hard enough, and it catches the light, even in the dark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  hope you’ll keep loving this place in the complicated, IHTFP, way just ... positions that are due in an hour... All in one senior evening. Next week, you might be doing that after an interview in New York. Interviews: you never

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  comfortable standing in front of an audience and trying to convince them of ... Child was a cook, not a chef. She grew up in Pasadena, CA, went to Smith College in Massachusetts, and worked for the US government, travelling the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies ... have included in an email to Next House, ranked in tiers from most to ... all of you in these trying times, With love and care, / With love

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  through air, to breathe clearly, to be awake instead of trapped in a dream ... readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022