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  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... point where it is clear that they are 'qualified' and could succeed as far ... previous factors still weigh in?" We always look at a given applicant

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the ... , then the photos we take are in a format that can't be uploaded easily

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... and strumming a guitar like the sounds playing in my ears? What if I ... in southern Californ--"Where?" I grew up in Los Angeles. "Okay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  a few different things in my already congested brain. One, things are ... mind had ran thought marathons of all kind. It was in that auditorium ... into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  distinction, but an important one in understanding the agency of admissions ... 'd blog them here too. So, without any additional throat-clearing, here are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  not, in fact, normal "What classes are you taking?" - Our Number System ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie ... that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  - clearly a girl. There’s no ambiguity here. I have traditional femininity in ... ball of hurt I carry with me, a part of the constant calculus I engage in ... wisdom, but I’ve certainly done it. So here, in a collection of vignettes

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  wasn’t all that clear in the first place, it’s exponentially more ... guess that at your high school–just as in many high schools–the days you spend in class might go something like this: 1. Introduce a specific

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  aspiring professionals can come in. It's pretty clear that kids are ... value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in ... in the future. Once we have enough High School teams in the area, we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... . In fact, you’d only need to keep track of one thing, the running sum

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the ... styles. During Orientation, professors in various departments will talk ... . Adding, Dropping, and (Not) Failing If you feel overloaded in the beginning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... introductory philosophy classes).  Note: this post was updated on June 21 in ... ), and the rise is clearly associated with fossil-fuel burning. Global sea

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is give an overview of the IPA symbols that are used in English. By the time ... make sounds in your mouth, like retroflex, uvular, and pharyngeal sounds

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... ” MIT class is 12 units. This may mean 4 hours in class and/or recitation ... (like the wonderful 18.S097 Special Subject in Mathematics: Introduction

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  It has been 13 days since Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour began so in honor of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  on Discord would one day come in handy for something as important as ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in ... questions in my DMs and asked publicly and on the IG live that I really wanted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020