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• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where ... -as-a-bootcamp that set in during a hellish week. So I decided to leave something ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  about how to access our MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a Quest ... @mit.edu. After you email us, we will contact you about how to access our MIT Quest ... your QuestBridge application to apply for our Regular Action cycle, but
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  Admissions staff with new and exciting things in your life. How to send us ... , some context in which to understand them. This year was our biggest ... it is impossible to know at this time exactly how many complete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I ... , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... Admarket's flickrSLiDR) So how did we manage to get so lucky? The answer ... (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the ... prefrosh is like an open door to visit labs, classes, and get exposed to everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  ) real analysis seeks to, in addition to other pedagogical goals, teach how ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory ... expected to 1) learn hard material, 2) learn how to prove hard material, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... committee was to get changed and get hyped.  At 6:30pm, doors opened. I was

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  ? How about this...whoever gives me the best costume suggestion gets to ... celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened to be my birthday), and what do you know? My train broke down! I spent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT ... have a conversation in real life.  All you have to do is follow these few ... fairly accurate graph, if it referred to dogs) just look at how adorable

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that Course 1 allows me the opportunity to participate in a program such as this and I am excited to see how it intersects with my coursework at MIT, my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... actually a very good case for an entry with the title "How to do everything ... you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :)

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  the X number of units you need in order to graduate. The grades you get ... people in every class get to experience. Very useful connections, if you ... you can get to MIT significantly before September. Well, the choices are

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  to get in somewhere good. You don't have to be valedictorian, be in the ... really wanted to take. And where, you might ask, did I get in with these ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... sentence. But it's actually true. And in the long run...I wouldn't want it to ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  the day, companies also gave talks about how to user their software in ... getting to be too much to try to figure out in one sitting. Cue 4 am ... project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer questions about how people live and what matters to them: through asking

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005