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  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  is supposed to cap off your four-year experience in Civil and ... Course I seniors, regardless of whether they focused in civil engineering ... people in the class who I honestly haven't seen since sophomore year. The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for students whose ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already ... straightforward. You'll take your transcript, then write the course name in one box

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  , noted in her own post on LGBQT life (and more specifically, The Rainbow ... drawing together a closely-knit, conscientious community in which nobody ... 's actively involved in G@MIT (GLBT at MIT), a Trans Task Force, and MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... were not permitted at the dinner, but just imagine an endless feast in a ... night. The following day, as you no doubt inferred, was Eid ul-Fitr. As in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  was born and raised in Columbia, MO – home of the Mizzou Tigers ... ’s mascot. Seriously.) – located smack-dab in the middle of the U.S. While it ... bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring ... most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  ). Invariably, the answer has always been "dive in somewhere and it'll work itself ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... programming. I've got a background in programming, but they use Python whereas I ... lot of sense. All in all, I love this class so far. 2.002-Mechanics and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  - Graded Undergraduate Research in Course 9 Total: 72 units I'm way more ... semester. I loved biology in high school - mainly because I had a great teacher who complemented lectures in class with several hilarious stories

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  : Sometimes, it seems like MIT people only speak in numbers. You'll hear sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... (sometimes given in Roman numerals). These numbers are in approximate order of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  while the drill bit (actually called an "end mill") is in the part ... parts in SolidWorks, import them into a program called "MasterCAM," and ... you, spitting out a finished part in just a few minutes. Neat, huh

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  COLLIER COUNTY: A set of twin girls in Collier County have a lot more in ... personalities are totally different," she said. Both girls plan to attend MIT in ... what they plan to major in this fall, the both said the same thing - math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... - present resources available at MIT and in the surrounding community

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP ... (Todai), the most prestigious university in Japan, through a year of ... teacher brings in "specialists" from different areas that attempts to teach

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  the college application process was over, all the complications in life would vanish. Not so. After I mailed in my deposit, I received an ... congregates people who are interested in the subject or are interested in

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... pulled down my window and my shades, assured that I was in for another 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  time, always amidst great fanfare and in every creative, apocalyptic way ... days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... apparently wrong in my computer in a very big way. The guy recommended wiping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  that are knee-deep in finals (including yours truly). Finals at MIT are ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008