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  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure, the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  of meat?  Toss a watermelon back and forth in some sort of deranged ... past few weeks in preparation for this weekend's events.  You can see the effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  ; Step 1 - CHECK-IN EARLY Before you can do anything else with this guide ... maximum comfort is checking in as soon as humanly possible. This is actually ... , or FR) NEVER TAKE THIS SEAT. I promise you the person in front of you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems and criticize/ comment on them. We meet every Tuesday for three hours in ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... very slippery slope to go down. Every week, I'd spend 5 hours in lecture

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... into the cast iron chairs that were only bearable because they were in ... perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... community and collaboration. In 2012, iGEM spun out of MIT and became an

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... challenges or work and play! Not the determination in his eyes, the bravery

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... , participating in competitions like MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition ... population that strives to make the world better in some small (or big!) way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  city planning. In the last 2 years alone, 110 A&P interns, including ... architecture that I would like to pursue in my graduate studies. [It] helped ... helped pin-point my area of interest that I wish to pursue in graduate

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  hurricane, dumped heavy, wet snow across the region, exceeding two feet in ... dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a ... .   A tree sags over torn power lines in south-central New Hampshire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  old posters and cut them out and arrange them in some pattern and just ... his scrambled eggs and talking in some silly accent and they both began ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  Roulette by leaving custom business cards in local stores, and she'd like to ... MassArt should she come across a Time-Turner in her dorm. I hate hipsters but Connie's cool!!  Natnael G. was born in Ethiopia but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... Fenway Park, home to the Red Sox. In front of me is more of the Back Bay

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and ... covering in many of my classes is no longer background material, but rather something which would be used in my work as an engineer. 1.00 (Introduction

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  home a happy 2011; I would’ve wished them in person – except I’m in India ... flight cancellations, some in-flight meal confusion, a missed train, a last ... of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  usually booked by month and scheduled well in advance through the Student ... might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010