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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the ... - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  the pre-frosh I called were from the Midwest, since I asked for people ... the talking for me. Because no telethon is complete without me taking ... bigger! Group shot! Snively, Tina '11, Matt, and Jon '11 pose for the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... , working on an application that eventually quadrupled the sampling rate for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... take a break from the weird food analogy for now. (Sidenote: if by now

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  recitation instructor, was going over the equation for total demand (of goods ... for yourself. 21A.453 - Anthropology of the Middle East professor ... , whose digestive acids eat away at the paint to make the dolls look

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  .) During the evaluation process, we are looking for students who are the best ... obvious love for math or science), will the admissions staff get suspicious ... McArthur. What's good? I have registered for the November 7th SAT and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task ... 's just for task management. Task management is for the school year; goal setting is for the summer. During my summers, I always try to set some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office ... , where I find this heart (it looks much cooler in person). Click the photo to view a closeup, and for the uninitiated, here's some history on

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  We were so lucky to have the UA Alumni Affairs Committee invite John ... notes I sketched out during the talk.   I'm very much interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  shops I haven't shown you photos of. Up first: the Lab for Manufacturing ... write the code for the CNC machines: For those of you not familiar with ... will write the CNC code for you, upload that code to a CNC machine, then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  the rest of his team. And we talk, for a bit. But he is soon swept up by ... rising up from the sea of trees. For my FPOP, we had an activity on top of the Green Building. It was pretty fun.) I lie down and look at the sky

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  started looking for a house. It sucked, definitely one of the more stressful ... ’s the nature of disasters like this. You kind of just need to look out for ... twelve friends, where I’ll stay for at least for the next 2.5 months

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked ... always count on him to share an empathetic look with, especially when the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... book. “If the cube problem looks like this, here is the next step.” Man ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a ... for a long time: to make games that affect peoples' lives in the same ... on games aren't the software people. They have majors for game design

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  , looking for inspiration in the ordinary along the way. Then I sit down to ... very far removed from the circus that was college applications for me and ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  the gateways. I’ve been at the company for three weeks now, and every ... discusses and celebrates successes and plans for the coming month. Even though ... *written by Sharon L. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  schedule for working the Registration and Help Desks, so you can come by and ... &-new I personally voted for the "rocking out scientifically" one, just ... as a theme song. So there's your FIRST update for the week! See you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  so that I could go home for less than a thousand dollars. The fried ... day for MIT that we call "Drop Date." November 21, 2018, marked the ... . Drop the class! Maybe you registered for like ten classes with the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its ... would be far cheaper and less labor-intensive. So for the last month, the ... vend your boba for you! Lambda Tea plans to expand beyond the grounds of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017