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  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  the Midyear Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for ... to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... free to write in bullet points or more casual language. We're really not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could ... much beloved former Communications Director Ben Jones in 2004, was a ... Admissions website. This isn't an easy task. We are deeply invested in our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... signs. (for the record, the first one spells out "ATACK 'MM" as in "ATTACK

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than frats, sororities, and ILGs) called iHouse - in fact, there's only 20 of us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide ... school. Finally, my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office are happy to ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well-known book in 1996, but he never really discussed it and that was that. Fast

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... going over the methodology in lecture until tomorrow. Oh, and then there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... sphingosine, a) draw in all of the hydrogen atoms. Label each sp3 carbon ... pedigree [not pictured in this entry], which shows the inheritance of a very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  'll explain the reasoning for these rankings below in my four-year class roadmap! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... kids stuffed in a New Vassar study room, being on campus during my first

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  visual arts presence here (and in the greater Boston area) is super vibrant ... ), and Borderline (murals) are easy ways to meet other people interested in ... -related things I’ve been enjoying in the past few months (numbered #1 because I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... in his explanations and was passionate about the content.  2. 8

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  stopped outside Elko, NV, and then waking up again with the train in the ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I make my dinner plans. The landscape out here in Nevada is somewhat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you ... applied to their walking. with that in mind, this post contains some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , seasonal flowers, pretty architecture, AC in dorms, or just generally ... with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early ... . Accordingly, MIT lies in this awkward liminal space between having some of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  time to figure out their admission status. Essentially, nausea is in the ... . My younger ears knew that it was a very prestigious school in sunny ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are ... generate these signals in real time and feed them into the oscilloscope. The ... Tetris as a built-in easter egg. Putting it together With this background

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... laundry list of things going on in my life that can possibly make me tired ... .  It’s a nice view. Concrete strip malls and multilane highways in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... wasted, too. If you wake up in a house that’s full of smoke, Don’t panic ... commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021