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• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... factors that help to give a clear understanding of what you have learned

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  for fun. I am a nerd. I don't think I became a nerd UNTIL I came to MIT ... grabbed a program to read while waiting for the lecture to begin. That ... year's Killian Award and the person scheduled to teach us "What is a gene

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  to you with a postcard letting you know we have received your reply ... Director of Admissions to Associate Director of Admissions (yes, this is a ... to get more folks to watch it, since the director/producer is a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  regular term classes has officially come to an end. My glasses could use a ... a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a ... experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... officer forgets to transfer a mailing list. i've seen some success with ... transfer, and it's easy to forget something small, like transferring a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  going to run a Python spelling bee, one of EC's traditional bad ideas ... to make it shorter next year. Upstairs I try to take a nap, but am ... attribute? He then told me that he forgot to bring a phone charger, so I told

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  first week madness memes does anyone relate? lol

  

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  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions & Coca-Cola Check-in Last-minute questions, and Coca-Cola Scholars check-in.

  

  With CPW less than a day away, I'd like to use the comments for this ... there get a chance to connect!). ... do this in Mollie's latest entry). Students who have to miss CPW for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  So I'm about to cook a turkey for the first time in my life, but before I foray out into the world of basting and boiling, I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. And just remember had it been for

  • by Bryan
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged ... something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful temperament or

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... Summer Program – Summer Programs are a great way to make good use of your

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a ... students to Mechanical Engineering (ME) through hands-on classes (taught by
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  All application materials must be in English. You may have a professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but ... any documents, please ask him/her to sign and date the translation
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually try all the cool places I live so close to! We've seen a live music show ... anyone local wants to know :) It's a bit embarrassing how much cool stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  after 7pm Got stuck in Stuttgart returning back to Zürich because of a ... Learned to cook a traditional Czech meal in Prague Went to my first wine ... , and went to my first bar in the US FALL Started a new series for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... community. Thanks to my well-documented genetic inability to win a single

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch next to a friend i know's been busy recently, napping peacefully, and taking a picture and sending it to him to tease him, reminiscing about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022