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  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  in. After my nap, I will head over to the west parallel of East Campus ... . The rest of the day promises no surprises. I’ll need to find food, wash ... hamper of laundry. The thought of transporting a bag of dirty clothing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  stability. He talks about the 120 degree separation of the fins and their ... obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you ... maximizing the height of trajectory. You may do anything to the bottle except

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  these events? ALL OF THE FOLLOWING happened at roughly the same time: 1 ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company ... the usual email informing me of its arrival, so it took a week to figure

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best ... , filtered deliciousness from a burbling water fountain while the attentions of the actual residents were occupied by festivities of a barbecueous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2018 are now ... to decisions.mit.edu. 18,357 students applied to the MIT Class of 2018. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  , the Saferide Cambridge West shuttle (after 6 pm), and as of late, my ... that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... 's the coolest way to get around.)But I'm getting ahead of myself. On to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things, where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not ... already knew a good number of my classmates from high school or from the Research Science Institute, it became very easy to fall into the trap of not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  beginning of the rest of my life. But, in reality, there was none of that, as ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my undergraduate career couldn’t have come fast enough. The last two weeks of term

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not ... worthwhile questions, they shouldn't overshadow the most important question of ... worth it if you spent the years unhappily toiling through a course of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... toss up between Battle of the Bands and NightMarket. Battle of the Bands ... there is a giant music free-for-all. Its definitely one of the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to the meat of this post. MIT is the greatest place I know to study any

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative, Oliver Smoot '62, while walking across the Harvard Bridge. As part of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap was the sofa in front of the TV. A side effect of television was the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what ... to surround a gap year. One of the concepts that I found particularly ... suggests that the year will be even more productive than a year of your

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008